Tehran, Iran, November 17, 1976 (UPI) security police have shot and killed a man who masterminded the August slayings of three American civilians on a Tehran street, officials are announced today. The announcement said that Bahram from a ROM was killed in a police shooting out on a downtown Tehran street yesterday. Two other guerrillas were also killed in an intensified ten day campaign to rid Tehran of terrorist. The announcement said, seven suspected guerrillas were arrested in a large amount of arms and explosives confiscated during the campaign, police said.
According to police, Bahram directed the morning rush-hour attack on an automobile carrying three U.S. employees of Rockwell International. The three Americans killed - William Cottrell, 43, Robert Kongard, 44, and Donald Smith, 43 were all Californians. Since the attack, Americans in Iran, particularly those working on sensitive defense contracts, have taken special precautions while traveling in the city. The three dead Americans had been working on a project Ibex, an electronics system capable of surveillance of neighboring countries, including parts of the Soviet Union.
