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...begins a letter, poignant in retrospect, written by Charge d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen of the U.S. embassy in Tehran to his wife in Bethesda, Md. The deposed Shah of Iran had been admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment less than two weeks earlier, and Laingen was describing an anti-American demonstration outside the embassy. Laingen left the letter on his office desk. Three days later-on Nov. 4, 1979-the embassy was overrun by Iranian militants and America's 444-day hostage ordeal began...
Many of the returned Americans have already resumed their diplomatic or military careers. Of the nine Marines released in January, only one, Sergeant Rodney Sickmann of Washington, Mo., has accepted the offer of an early discharge. Embassy Chargé d' Affaires L. Bruce Laingen rebuffs reports that he will run for public office. "He'd be good at it," said his wife Penelope. "But how could I leave the foreign service?" he countered. Richard Queen, of Lincolnville, Me., whose multiple sclerosis is in indefinite remission, is back at a State Department desk in Washington while awaiting a prized...
...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...
...commercial or cultural business. U.S. officials believe that many of these people were arrested, interrogated by the revolutionary komitehs and, in some cases, executed. Indeed, some U.S. officials are surprised that the Iranian militants did not make more use of the sensitive information that was known to be in Laingen's safe...
...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...