380. Telegram From the Consulate in Karachi to the Department of State1
6612. Subject: Anti-US Demonstrations in Pakistan—3.
1. Our contact in Islamabad reports that group in Embassy vault area are becoming concerned about supply of oxygen in vault. Contact [Page 864] reports British Ambassador has been in touch with President Zia and reports no rpt no concrete result.2
2. If Department could establish contact with Zia either directly or indirectly through Embassy Washington, that might help to spur on what appears to our observers in Islamabad to be sluggish GOP response to Embassy take-over by mob. We are trying our best through our contacts but so far aside from report of helicopter on roof our efforts have not been crowned with success.
- Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, D790537–0262. Confidential; Flash.↩
- See Document 383.↩