This work consists of 11 shredded and reassembled copies of a letter by Bruce Laingen, the former hostage and chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy. Dated November 3, 1979, this letters was written just three days prior to the embassy's occupation by the Iranian revolutionary students and the hostage crisis that followed. When seizing the embassy the student found scores of official documents, many of which were already shredded, which they gradually reassembled, translated and published in 74 volumes titled "Documents of the US Espionage Den". The original letter by the chargé d’affaires was among the documents which were found intact. In this personal but ambivalent letter to his family, Laingen writes about the ongoing anti-US protests outside the embassy gate, but also of the everyday life of the diplomatic community. There is little anticipation on the very near future. ‘Letters that Go Folded into Shredder’ re-enacts the work of archiving/de-shredding by the students, but onto a letter that testifies to the time before the embassy’s occupation, when the turn of events are still undetermined.