decided to release the 82 remaining crew members, although the written apology was preceded by an oral statement by Woodward that it was done only to secure the release of the Pueblo crew. Woodward's statement was: The position of the United States Government with regard to the Pueblo, as consistently expressed in the negotiations at Panmunjom and in public, has been that the ship was not engaged in illegal activity, that there is no convincing evidence that the ship at any time intruded into the territorial waters claimed by North Korea, and that we could not apologize for actions which we did not believe took place. The document which I am going to sign was prepared by the North Koreans and is at variance with the above position, but my signature will not and cannot alter the facts. I will sign the document to free the crew and only to free the crew. He served at the Pentagon again from March 1969 until September 1970 when he took command of the 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea. He commanded the division until November 1971 when he returned to the Pentagon to serve as Deputy Director of the Joint Staff, Organization, Joint Chiefs of Staff. In May 1972 he was assigned to South Vietnam where he served as Chief of Staff, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). In November 1972 the MACV commander General Frederick C. Weyand tasked Woodward with planning for the organization of the four-party commission that was to implement the ceasefire and supervise the exchange of prisoners and the U.S. troop withdrawal in accordance with the Paris Peace Accords which were nearing finalization. By early November, Woodward and his team had outlined how the Four-Party Joint Military Commission consisting of representatives from South Vietnam, the United States, North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG) should be organized and the requirements for an effective ceasefire. In January 1973, Woodward travelled to Paris to participate in the last stages of the technical negotiations. The final ceasefire protocol closely followed the principles MACV had outlined. On 28 January 1973 Woodward was appointed as the United States representative to the Four-Party Joint Military Commission responsible for implementing the Paris Peace Accords. The Four-Party Joint Military Commission was disbanded on 29 March and replaced by the Two-Party Joint Military Commission consisting of representatives of South Vietnam and