Telegram from the British Embassy, Tehran
This document is a December 27, 1979 cable from the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. providing an update on the Iran hostage crisis.
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SITUATION (s) MESSAGE(S) LISTING
DATE 01/03/80//003
SITUATIONI
AFGHAN
SUBJECT CATAGORY SIT
MESSAGE / ANNOTATION:
MESSAGE:
IMMEDIATE
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2716352 DEC 79
FM BRITISH EMBASSY WASHINGTON DC
TO
SEC STATE WASHINGTON DC
UK CONFIDENTIAL
PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING TO IRAN TASK FORCE, OPERATIONS CENTRE; STATE DEPT
EXDIS
FOLLOWING RECEIVED FROM BRITISH EMBASSY TEHRAN.
BEGINS,
CONFIDENTIAL
FM TEHRAN 270630Z DEC
TO IMMEDIATE WASHINGTON
TELEGRAM NUMBER 43 OF 27 DEC 79
INFO PRIORITY FCO.
US EMBASSY, TEHRAN : LAINGEN,
1.
THE SWISS AMBASSADOR AND 1 SAW LAINGEN ON CHRISTMAS DAY
AND OTHERS FOLLOWED US YESTERDAY, VISITS TO HIM ARE NOW
BEING PERMITTED ONCE AGAIN, SUBJECT TO STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY,
THE MFA BEING ANXIOUS LEST THE STUDENTS ONCE AGAIN GET TO
HEAR OF THEM AND TAKE ACTION EITHER TO PREVENT THEM OR TO
REMOVE LAINGEN HIMSELF. HE AND HIS COMPANIONS ARE WELL BUT
NATURALLY FRUSTRATED AND DOWNCAST,
2. THE FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A MESSAGE GIVEN BY LAINGEN
TO THE NETHERLANDS AMBASSADOR YESTERDAY FOR TRANSMISSION
TO THE IRAN WORKING GROUP.
3. BEGINS. WE MET FOR TWO HOURS CHRISTMAS DAY WITH COFFIN,
HOWARD AND GUMBLETON. MEETING WAS ON THEIR INITIATIVE,
THEY SIMPLY APPEARED AT MFA ASKING TO SEE US, WITH FOREIGN
MINISTER GIVING GO-AHEAD FROM QOM ON BASIS OF TELEPHONE CALL
FROM
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL. WE HOPE TO SEE THEM AGAIN.
4.
SUMMING UP WHAT WE CONVEYED BY TELECON DECEMBER 25 ON
THEIR VISITS WITH HOSTAGES
:
(A) MILITANTS INDICATED THEY HAD SEEN ALL THE HOSTAGES, BUT
WHSR COMMENTS
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