Following the seizure of USS Pueblo, Adm.Thomas H. Moorer, CNO, and President of the Naval Institute gave remarks in an address to the American Bar Foundation on January 25, 1969, which was published in the March 1969 issue of Proceedings magazine.

 USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what was later known as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".