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CIA • 1979

MEMO RE ANY RESCUE OPERATIONS INTO TEHERAN WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WOULD HAVE A VERY LOW PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS

Approved for Release: 2020/02/27 C01446172 TOP p7..C1 MEMORANDUM 15 November 1979 I believe that any rescue operation into Teheran within the next two weeks would have a very low probability of success. We need better to help you prepare for a decision on such an operation, and on what the alternatives are. � First, you deserve an explicit statement of the likelihood of success of a rescue attempt...
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Created
Mar 9, 2023
Released
May 4, 2020
Publication
Nov 15, 1979
Case number
F-2013-00944

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Metadata

Document #

15791850

Case #

F-2013-00944

Document Type

FOIA

Collection

FOIA Collection

Release Decision

RIPPUB

Original Classification

U

Sequence

Pages

3 pages

File Size

95.8 KB