On Monday, Jan. 5, I'll be doing a live interview with Scott LaMar, host of "Smart Talk" on WITF-FM, the National Public Radio outlet in Harrisburg, PA. We'll be talking about the USS Pueblo, its mission, the crew's brutal imprisonment in North Korea, and the Navy's treatment of the men after they came home on Christmas Eve, 1968. 

The 30-minute interview begins at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time (6:30 a.m. Pacific). You can hear the program live at www.witf.org/listen.

The photo above shows the Pueblo in Wonsan harbor, after it was attacked and captured on Jan. 23, 1968. The ship was pinpointed by CIA pilot Jack Weeks flying a top-secret A-12 Blackbird aircraft. Built by Lockheed, the extraordinary A-12 could reach altitudes of 90,000 feet and speeds of up to three times the speed of sound. In the late 1960s, A-12s flew 29 spy missions over North Vietnam and North Korea as part of Operation Black Shield. Weeks's mission over Wonsan is described in Chapter 6 of "Act of War."