Public Reel

Hostage Report

1981 · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)

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The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).

The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.

Creating body, as recorded
Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense
National Archives Identifier
4524406 (local identifier 330-DVIC-52850)
Internet Archive item
gov.archives.arc.4524406 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

The record

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National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 4524406 / Local Identifier 330-DVIC-52850 - Hostage Report - Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. (09/18/1947 - ). Synopsis: Iranian hostage, Colonel Thomas Schaefer, is introduced, discusses four areas of his experience and responds to four pre-arranged questions. Covers major hostage experiences as they relate to their exploitation; efforts to glean military information from them as well as information on other hostages; forced propaganda statements; pressures used in Iranian efforts to accomplish the above. -

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