The Swiss Connection

I AM not at liberty at this point in time to reveal how the following “position paper,” couched in the form of a dialogue, came into my possession. It was, however, given to me during the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, with the understanding that it would be published as is. / have decided to ask that the position paper be published in national review, whose long-standing interest in diplomacy antedates that of even so distinguished a publication as Foreign Affairs, (It will be recalled that it was an editor of national review who thundered: “ Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!”) The memorandum to the NSC follows. —ab

Memo to: National Security Council Subject: Avoiding Future U.S. Embassy Seizures

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I AM not at liberty at this point in time to reveal how the following “position paper,” couched in the form of a dialogue, came into my possession. It was, however, given to me during the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, with the understanding that it would be published as is. / have decided to ask that the position paper be published in national review, whose long-standing interest in diplomacy antedates that of even so distinguished a publication as Foreign Affairs, (It will be recalled that it was an editor of national review who thundered: “ Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!”) The memorandum to the NSC follows. —ab

Memo to: National Security Council Subject: Avoiding Future U.S. Embassy Seizures