. technology was not as advand as it was today. so what happened, the first age u-turn the paper into linguine and the second stage you turn it into confetti. the second stage broke down so they recovered the linguine with unlimited manpower and time and the skill that has gone into making persian carpets for hundreds of years they wove back together at least what they saw as the most sensitive documents. they also recovered a lot of things and damaged which they published about 70 volumes, both english and persian, index and classified. as a historian i have to ad what they did and is in fact a very valuable source for students of diplomatic history. students of diplomatic history  see what the embassy was reporting. some of mine reporting is in there and some of the same reporting appeared on wikileaks this is 1979. i read it and i still think this holds up. when you see your reporting 25, 30 years ago sometimes it is embarrassing when you wrote. >> john limbert, how long were you behind the hard lin