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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Gerald R. Ford
Barbara Hutchinson
Eugene Kopp
Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs
DATE & TIME:
Wednesday - October 30, 1974
PLACE:
The Oval Office
[Press in]
President: Have you gotten a rest?
Hutchinson: Better as hostages!
President: How long had you been there?
Hutchinson: Since December 1972.
3/10/04
President: How did you happen to get caught?
[Press out]
Hutchinson: They wanted an American diplomat.
12958, SEC. 3.5
NSC MEMO, E.O. 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES stateloriew
President: How didithappen?
NARA. DATE 5/6/04
Hutchinson: They had planned for a long while and had apparently fingered
me. They wanted prisoners released. There was some confusion about
where to go because the police had barred the place they first wanted to go.
DECLASSIFIED
President: How many were there?
CONFIDENTIAL
LIBRARY
TOP SECRET XGDS (3)
BY
CLASSIFIED BY: HENRY A. KISSINGER
CONFIDENTIAL
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Hutchinson: Seven.
President: Were they all terrorists?
Hutchinson: Yes, they all had records.
President: Was there any competition for leadership?
Hutchinson: There were three principals, but one was the charismatic
leader, the second the theoretician, and the third got discouraged right
away. Just a matter for us of sitting it out.
President: What happened to them?
Hutchinson: The last I heard they were in Panama in hospital gowns,
well surrounded.
Kopp: Mexico, the Peruvians and Cuba had refused. We had to put
pressure on Panama to take them.
President: Your actions were in the highest tradition of the Foreign
Service. It took courage and also a sense of humor.
Hutchinson: It couldn't have happened under a better Ambassador. I
had worked for him twice.
President: You should write a book.
Hutchinson: I have already wirtten an article for USIA news.
Kopp: We had one kidnapped and shot in Argentina -- by coincidence I
met him just before Barbara was kidnapped.
Hutchinson: I was so chagrined at all the trouble and publicity.
President: We were very proud of you. It was in the best and highest
tradition of the Foreign Service.
Kopp: We have good machinery for these matters. The family all know
that way.
CONFIDENTIAL
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