Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group without the President convenes in the Cabinet Room to work on necessary notifications and statements. [I sat alone in my small office, listing everything I needed to do to prevent any harm to our hostages, to protect our agents in Tehran, to notify leaders of other nations in the area and to inform some American leaders and later the general public. First, we had to get our rescue team out of Iran, undetected if possible...
...President joins group in Cabinet Room. [I sent for CIA Director Turner to determine how much time our agents in Tehran for the rescue mission would need to leave the country or to protect themselves from discovery...
...country. As soon as it was safe, we wanted to anticipate the Iranians with our announcement, to prevent their exaggeration of the rescue mission into an all-out invasion-a version that might cause them to harm the hostages. We had a number of people in Tehran with trucks, radio equipment and other compromising materials, who had to be notified and given a chance to protect themselves...
Because Sullivan seemed unable to provide us with adequate reports from the military, a crucial source of information and advice, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and I concluded that we needed a strong and competent American representative in Tehran who would keep me informed about the military's needs. One of his responsibilities would be to strengthen the resolve of the military leaders and encourage them to remain in Iran to maintain stability even if the Shah should leave. I ordered General Robert Huyser, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, to carry out this assignment...
Predictably, our embassy people in Iran recommended against our inviting the Shah to the U.S. We had already reduced our Tehran diplomatic staff to fewer than 75, vs. 1,100 before the revolution began. We had also completely revamped the embassy's security features, and were convinced