Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shah's illness. In his evening report Vance noted that David Rockefeller had sent his personal physician to Mexico and that if the Shah's ailments were serious we might be asked to admit him for treatment. Cy added, "Our charge d'affaires [Bruce Laingen] in Tehran says local hostility toward the Shah continues and that the augmented influence of the clerics might mean an even worse reaction than would have been the case a few months ago, if we were to admit the Shah-even for humanitarian purposes...
...been successful in keeping secret the presence of six American diplomats who had found refuge in the Canadian embassy at the time our embassy was taken. (Some news organizations knew about these diplomats, but at my request did not reveal the information.) In January, with the streets of Tehran quiet, it was time to bring them out. This was a real cloak-and-dagger story, with American secret agents being sent into Iran to rehearse with the Canadians and Americans the plans for their departure. The agents and those being rescued would have to be furnished with disguises and false...
...possible staging areas for our rescue team was in an isolated desert region about 200 miles south of Tehran that seemed from aerial photographs to be smooth enough for night landings by transport planes. I authorized the flight of a small airplane for a close visual examination of the desert sand, to see how smooth and firm it was. I was not making a final commitment; at the same time, I wanted training operations and planning to continue...
...Algerian team under Foreign Minister Mohammed Benyahia were acting as intermediaries. The Iranians, who spoke Persian, would talk only with the Algerians, who spoke French. Any question or proposal of mine had to be translated twice as it went from Washington to Algiers to Tehran; the answers and counterproposals had to come back over the same slow route...
...only in Algiers and Tehran but also in London, Istanbul, Paris, Bonn and other world political and financial capitals, related negotiations had been under way for weeks. Sunday, on my last visit to Camp David, I had signed the 15 documents necessary to initiate the financial transactions. Under the agreement worked out through the Algerians, enough Iranian funds would be held in escrow to pay any legitimate American claims. The Bank of England had been chosen to hold the escrow account in the name of the Algerian central bank. The balance would be returned to Iran. The Iranian gold...