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...carrier headed north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog, a gadget-crammed spy ship of the same genre as Pueblo...
...event, Gidrolog was not the only party curious about the whereabouts of the U.S. armada. The day after Enterprise headed toward Wonsan, North Korean MIGS flew more than 40 sorties around the port, and U.S. listening posts intercepted a steady stream of chatter from Pyongyang to the pilots: "Where is the Enterprise? What is the position of Enterprise?" Either the leviathan was making North Korea nervous, or Pyongyang, in the wake of its success at swiping Pueblo, was thinking of bigger things...
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