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While much of the testimony has been confused and contradictory, the investigation into the capture of U.S.S. Pueblo seems to have settled on its villain. Witness after witness has portrayed Lieut. Stephen R. Harris, officer in charge of the ship's supersecret research center spaces, as incompetent or cowardly, or both...
...testimony concerning Harris and his operation has been delivered in closed session, the fragmentary evidence that the Navy has made public indicates that the lieutenant neglected to post required plans for destroying classified data; never gave the order to destroy the ship's secret documents even when Pueblo came under attack; and failed to supervise or help in the destruction effort once it was initiated at an enlisted man's order...
...Rift. Harris also denies the widely held belief that there was ill feeling between him and Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd ("Pete") Bucher. The security officer claims that there never was any rift. He has nothing but praise for his commanding officer, whom he views as one of the most honest, responsible officers he has ever come across, a man he would feel "privileged to serve under in the future...
...Harris is disliked by his fellow officers and men of Pueblo, none of it shows during their off-duty hours. No one shuns the lieutenant at the barracks at North Island Naval Air Station, where the crew is quartered. Harris and his wife, Esther, see Bucher and his wife, Rose, socially "even more now than we did before the capture." Last week the four of them went to a concert and two nightclubs...
...Cover. As serious as Williams' implications were, even more damaging was the fact that Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson, then Commander of Naval Forces, Japan, had knowingly failed to provide available air cover for the vessel. The details were not made public, but when Pueblo's sister surveillance ship, U.S.S. Banner, had earlier cruised off North Korea, Admiral Johnson requested half a dozen or more Air Force F-105 fighters for air cover. The fighters were flown from Okinawa to South Korea, where they were kept on "strip alert," ready to go to Banner's aid. Inexplicably...