Word: laingen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contents of most safes were also destroyed by fire-producing grenades. But not all. Those in the offices of Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen, the embassy's highest ranking official, and Michael Me-trinko, a political officer, were captured intact. As a result, the militants gained a treasure trove of information. It included several compromising documents that, according to State Department officials, should have been shredded soon after Laingen received them...
...freedom flight touched down in Athens for refueling and then headed for Algiers. It landed at Houari Boumedienne Airport in a rainstorm. In the glare of television lights, Bruce Laingen, the chargé d'affaires at the Tehran embassy, led Kathryn Koob and Elizabeth Ann Swift, who wore the familiar yellow ribbons in their" hair, down a ramp and into the arms of the normally undemonstrative Christopher. Despite beards, the faces of some of the men reflected their exuberance...
...takeover or had been killed since (in fact, there were no deaths). No one outside the embassy was really sure how many staffers had been in the compound when the siege began, and how many had been elsewhere in the city. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen and two aides had been in the Foreign Ministry on business when the attack began, and they were held there, sinking gradually in status from diplomats to captives. Their number brought press estimates of the hostage population to "about 60"; as it was determined weeks later, the actual figure was 66. State...
...Tehran TV beamed fuller films back to the U.S. via satellite. This time, ten more hostages were shown. Eight more, seen only in photographs released by Pars, the Iranian news agency, brought the total shown to 34. One photo was of U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen, who has been held at the foreign ministry in Tehran. Some clearly had lost weight, but most looked reasonably healthy. And now their voices could be heard. Some sat beside the monsignor at a long table in a sparsely decorated-and thus unidentifiable-room. Only a Christmas tree brightened the scene...
...would slip one by one into Tehran and rendezvous at a warehouse that had been acquired by an American agent. During the night the commandos would divide into two assault teams. A small party would head for the Foreign Ministry building, where U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen and two other U.S. diplomats were held captive. The other commandos would drive to the embassy compound, where 50 Americans were imprisoned...