Page:Documents from the Den of Espionage.djvu/132

 TELEGRAM

1978 NOV 22 PM 1341

INDICATE

COLLECT

CHARGE TO

11502

FROM

AMEMBASSY TEHRAN

CLASSIFICATION

CONFIDENTIAL

E.O. 11652:

TAGS:

SUBJECT:

ACTION:

POL-3

AMB

DCM

ECON2

PM

USICA

OR

CRU

SHIR

TABR

ISFA

ACTIONS: SECSTATE WASHDC

PRIORITY

11502

CONFIDENTIAL TEHRAN

E.O. 11652: XGDS-4

TAGS: PGOV, PINR, PINS, IR

SUBJECT: ALI AMINI MOVES

1. BOSTON GLOBE'S STEVER ERLANGER (PROTECT IN CONVERSATION WITH EMBOFF SAID FORMER PRIME MINISTER ALI MINI TOLD HIM NOV 20 THAT OPPOSITION WAS COMING TD AGREEMENT ON COALTION GOVERNMENT. WITHOUT NAMING INDICIDUAL, AMINI SAID CANDIDATE PRIME MINISTER HAD BEEN CHOSEN WHO HAD BEEN OUT OF POLITICS FOR 15 YEARS BUT WAS A RESPECTED INDIVIDUAL WITH CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE. AMINI SAID HE WAS MEETING WITH BAZAARIS NOV 21 TO DISCUSS SUPPORT FOR SUCH A COALITION GOVERNMENT. IDEA INCLUDED CONNCURRENT NAMING OF ADVISORY COUNCIL TO SHAH WHICH WOULD CONSIST OF OLDER OPPOSITION LEADERS, LEAVTNG ROOM IN PROPOSED CABINET FOR YOUNGER, MERE DYMAMIC OPPOSITIONISTS AS WELL AS SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD SERVED AS UNDERSECRETARIES IN MINISTRIES.

2. IN COURSE OF TWO-HOUR CONVERSATION, AMINI SAID SHAH MUST

DRAFTED BY:

POL: JDStemple:lab

DRAFTING DATE

11-22-78

TEL. ERT.

CONTENTS AND CLASSIFICATION APPROVED BY:

DCM:CWNaas

CLEARANCES:

POL:GBLambrakis

CONFIDENTIAL

50153-101

CLASSIFICATION

OPTIONAL FORM 152(H)

(Formerly FS-413(H))

January 1955

Dept. of State