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reveal names and enhance the potential credit for HMG for having secured their help. But premature publicity could undermine their chances of success, or even of their continued involvement on our behalf.
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For your background information, we are aware of the following private individuals who have tried, or are trying, to intervene on behalf of British hostages (some of them at our instigation):
The Rt Hon Edward Heath MP
British parliamentarians:
Mr Bob Parry MP
Mr Dennis Canavan MP
Mr Ronald Campbell MP
British Muslim delegation:
Yusuf Islam
Idris Mears
Liaqat Hussein
Ahmed Versi
Sher Azam
Bashir Maan
Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC and Sue Ryder
Mr Richard Branson
Canon Paul Oestreicher
Lt. Gen. Sir Robert Drew
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