U.S. Embassy Tehran place
also: embassy, U.S. compound
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the equipment and records in the U.S. embassy. Beyond the CIA, they faced imminent danger. The agency had played a major role in the Shah's Iran. Its station in Tehran, when he fell, had 125 people. The CIA had 125 people in Iran. That's no…
▶ 38:25
Americans had been evacuated and only a tiny staff returned afterwards from the first one. During the interval between the Shah's fall and the embassy takeover, the CIA resorted to unusual tactics. Using both official and undercover station…
▶ 39:23
They escaped and eventually turned up at agency headquarters where Hart became the branch chief for Iran in the Near East Division. Admiral Stansfield Turner, director of the CIA under Carter, had a different headache. In the form of six ot…
▶ 39:48
in a building at the rear of the embassy when Iranian students began climbing the front walls and managed to escape. A sixth agricultural attache, Lee Schlatz, which is probably CIA too, they love using those attache positions, had an offic…
▶ 39:48
in a building at the rear of the embassy when Iranian students began climbing the front walls and managed to escape. A sixth agricultural attache, Lee Schlatz, which is probably CIA too, they love using those attache positions, had an offic…
▶ 45:13
Langley had reason to want the hostages freed. The Iranians had captured the CIA station in Tehran. They quickly identified Thomas Ahern as its chief and kept him in solitary confinement. Although CIA records in Tehran had been evacuated wh…
▶ 58:56
and got the cook to tell him exactly where the hostages were. It's always the chef. Oh my gosh. Okay, three hostages, including the charge de l'affaire, Bruce Langan, were being held at an Iranian foreign ministry. The remaining 50 American…
▶ 1:06:59
I never saw a connection to that. I think it would have been too old. The stuff about Iran today is interesting. If you want to get a cinematographer, anyways, a movie that talks about this, the private rescue, there's a movie called Argo, …