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Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001800650001-1 SECRET/NOFORN PROJECT SUN STREAK WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED PROJECT NUMBER: 8808 SESSION NUMBER: 059 DATE OF SESSION: 16 MAY 89 DATE OF REPORT: 16 MAY 89 START: 0930 END: 1025 METHODOLOGY: WRV VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 079 1. (S/NF/SK) MISSION: Provide salient, actionable data related to the status, location, and releasability of the US hostages, Terry Waite, and the Israeli hostages. 2. £ (S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Viewer tasked with requirements reflected in Para 1, above. 3. (S/NF/SK) COMMENTS: No inclemencies noted. £ A Summary of Information is attached to this report. Facilitator's main concern was to determine if the hostages indeed remained alive. Second consideration was to determine a time and given circumstances that may be favorable to their release. Viewer 079 indicates that a favorable analysis (intel pol community analysis) would be forthcoming in about six weeks, about early June 1989 two 4. (S/NF/SK): EVALUATION: ( ) G Referral Review by NIMA/DoD HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY SECRET/NOFORN CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT) DECLASSIFY: OADR Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001800650001-1
Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001800650001-1 T/NOFORN WORKING PAPER 8808 890516 079 S: 59 SUMMARY OF INFORMATION USMC LTC William (Rich) Higgins is currently located at Kawthariyat as Siyad. See ENCLOSURE 1. Thomas Sutherland is currently located at Bakkifa. See ENCLOSURE 2. Terry Waite and Terry Anderson are currently located at Binwati. See ENCLOSURE 3. Jesse Turner is currently located in the area of Al Hadath. See ENCLOSURE 4. Joseph Cicippio and Alan Steen are currently located at Zawtar ash Sharqiyah. See ENCLOSURE 5. Robert Pohill is currently located at Qa'at ash Shaqif, the area known as "Chateau de Beaufort." See ENCLOSURE 6. The Israeli hostages are currently located at Al Mahuydithat. See ENCLOSURE 7. Edward Tracy and Robert Reed remain in the company of European hostages. A tall, thin, Iranian official is involved in preliminary negotiations with European officials on behalf of the hostages. This man has a thin face. In late May and early June 1989, the issue of the release of the hostages will resurface as being analytically feasible. Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001800650001-1
. Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001800650001-1 Faced with continuing internal aggravating problems of everyday survival and "the possibility of a natural disaster", the Shites will react in such a manner that will favor a possibility of the releasability of the hostages. The Iranian influence on the fate of the hostages will be of secondary importance to the Shites holding the hostages in Lebanon. HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY Www ....... T/NOFORN CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT) DECLASSIFY: OADR Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001800650001-1
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