U.S. Embassy Security Chief, Aide Wounded in Cairo Attack

Three gunmen in a speeding automobile opened fire today on a station wagon carrying three U.S. Embassy officials to work, slightly injuring the embassy’s security chief and his deputy before speeding away.

Sources at the U.S. Embassy said Dennis Williams, the security chief, and his deputy, John Hucke, suffered superficial injuries from splintered glass and were treated at a nearby hospital and released. The two reported to work a few hours later, wearing bandages on their heads, the sources said.

A third embassy official, John Ford, who was riding in the same car, was not hurt, the sources said.

A man, speaking in English, telephoned a Western news agency in Cairo and said a group calling itself Egypt’s Revolution claimed responsibility for the attack.

Egypt’s Revolution is a shadowy group that claimed responsibility for three attacks on Israeli Embassy employees in Egypt in the last three years. In the last attack, in 1986, a woman on the Israeli mission staff was shot to death.

The group said then it was protesting the U.S.-mediated 1979 Egypt-Israeli peace accords. It accused Egypt, the United States and Israel of joining “a conspiracy . . . to liquidate the Palestinian cause.”