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The " Canadian Caper " was the joint covert rescue by the Canadian government and the CIA of six American diplomats who had evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, after the Iranian Revolution, when Islamist students took most of the American embassy personnel hostage ...
On Nov. 4, 1979, thousands of Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage, including three CIA officers. The crisis lasted 444 days—a drawn-out drama dubbed ...
Feb 16, 2013 · The political drama Argo is based on the real story of a CIA-planned rescue in revolutionary Iran. Experts say it gets most of the story right — but two men who were actually there say the end...
- Marcus Rosenbaum
Sep 11, 2019 · Learn how six American diplomats escaped from Iran during the 1979-1981 hostage crisis with the help of Canadian diplomats and a CIA operation. See artifacts from the crisis and the movie Argo at the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
Learn how CIA masterminded the ingenious exfiltration of six U.S. State Department staff who hid in the Canadian Embassy during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Discover how they posed as a Canadian film crew and escaped Iran with the help of Hollywood and Canadian officials.
Jan 14, 2013 · Ben Affleck's film Argo tells the bizarre story of how in 1980 the CIA - with Canadian help - sprang a group of Americans from Iran after they escaped a US embassy overrun by protestors.
Sep 15, 2023 · For the first time, the CIA has revealed the identity of a second officer who played a key role in a 1980 rescue mission in Iran that later inspired the Oscar-winning film Argo.
