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Chafee rejected recommendations by the naval court of inquiry that Bucher and Lieut. Stephen R. Harris, the officer in charge of Pueblo's supersecret "research" spaces, be tried by court-martial. Secretary Chafee also refused to authorize the issuance of letters of admonition and reprimand for other officers. "They have suffered enough and further punishment would not be justified," he said...
...responsibility for the disaster. Arguing that prosecution and punishment would serve no useful purpose for the Navy, Chafee elected to ignore all the recommendations. To a nation more leary than ever before of its military leaders, Chafee's decision must have seemed as satisfactory a settlement of the Pueblo quandary as was possible. Scapegoats had been avoided, but so had exoneration...
...Hyland, Pacific Fleet commander, had himself disagreed with the court of inquiry's stand, and Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, sided with Hyland (though the final decision rested with Chafee). In effect, the Navy's top command was accepting the fact that the blame for Pueblo had to be shared. The Navy still had to cope with the problem of maintaining its long tradition of tenacity in battle. Said one senior officer: "We won't have any trouble provided that everyone gets the message. If they do, they will know they are still expected...
Unanswered Questions. Perhaps the two men will, but the questions raised by the Pueblo incident will remain. One of the most difficult is what should be done about the Military Code of Conduct. In the wake of the forced confessions of the Pueblo crew, many now think that the code is worthless when applied under cold war conditions. However, S.L.A. Marshall, the military historian and retired general who was one of the chief architects of the code, says that a false conclusion is being drawn. Writing in a recent New Leader, he argues that the code actually requires prisoners...
Marshall contends that the only limitation placed on the prisoner is that he evade giving valuable information to his captors. Many military men probably would argue that it is risky trying to fence with the enemy; that it is better to remain silent. In any event, while the Pueblo investigation could have brought this entire question of the code into public discussion, it never did. The question remains unanswered, and the problems remain unsolved concerning espionage missions in general and the difficulties of mounting chancy military operations in which wartime conditions may suddenly arise while the country is technically...