DEPARTMENT OF STATE OPERATIONS CENTER TWA HIJACKING WORKING GROUP SITUATION REPORT NO. 26 SITUATION AS OF 1700 EDT JUNE 26, 1985

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: June 26, 1985
• Content Type: REPORT

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DEPARTMENT Of STATE OPERATIONS CENT
TWA HIJACKING WORKING GROUP
SITUATION REPORT NO 26
SITUATION AS OF 1700'EDT JUNE 16, 1985
At a press conference toda
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n Beirut, Nabi4
earri announced that he had decid
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Hostage Jimmy Dell Palmer When IC
RC doctors touq,d 1-1
that Palmer's blood pressure and heart condition were
growing worse sad that it 'Would be dangerous fQ,r him
to stay.' Barb also said that he was looking
turther into the medical condition of hostag, Simon
(:rossmayer, who might also be released. ta1mac later
1 lew to Larnaca where Cypriot doQturs tound him fit
tot immediate onward travel. Palmer will arrive
tonight in London. Barra also announced that
agreement: had been reached to release French
lournaliste Jean-Paul Kaufmann and Michel Seurat (who
were kidnapped in late May) along with the TWA
hostages, once the Lebanese prisoners in Atllt are
treed. No mention was made of the seven Americans,
the two French diplomats and the,eritish UNNWA
employee who are also still missing.
According to press reports, Barra also proposed
transferring all of the hostages to 'a Western
embassy in Beirut,' provided the government concterned
would agree not to release them until the Atilt
prisoners were released. Alternatively, the hostages
could all be flown 'somewhere else, like uamascup,'
where they would remain until the detainees were
released. (In a subsequent conversation with
Ambassador Bartholomew, Barra made no mention of this
prupoeal.) Barra also said the U.S. should withdraw
its naval ships from the Lebanese coast and
not to retaliate otter release of the hostagesedye
TWA co-pilot Philip Ma caeca was taken to American
University Hospital today for a medical examinat~on
and later returned to the aircraft. In order to get
a doctor more quickly, the hi3aekers initially told
the tower they had a 'dying man' dbutd. Maresca is
%pparently 5uttering tram an lntected heart bite.
We are limiting our responses to all media
inquiries regarding the hostage situation to the
following: 'The proper
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