Operation Eagle Claw operation
also: Desert One, Eagle Claw, rescue plan, mission
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Jimmy Carter ordered
Operation Eagle Claw documented
“And we created their national police, the SABAC. So they're basically a vassal state of the U.S. And they have all of this military technology exchange, which would kind of mean the U.S. was facilitating Israel getting nuclear weapons. Just…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 49:38
Howard Baines member_of
Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted
“So, oh, and he was involved in Operation Eagle Claw, which was the Iranian hostage crisis. And let's see. He was brought out of retirement for the 9-11 attack because, of course, he was. He also spent time in the 50s.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ghana 1966 @ 41:48
Chuck Gilbert carried_out_attack
Operation Eagle Claw documented
“claims credit for the CIA in involving the final rescue concept. Special operations experts advise simply landing in the Iranian desert to establish a refueling site and launching Rice Bowl from there. Chuck Gilbert, a CIA aviation expert w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 42:48
James Bo Gritz member_of
Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted
“James Bo Gritz. The reconnaissance patrol he accompanied into northern Laos managed to locate a suspected POW camp being guarded by Asians in military uniform. Upon examining the camp with high-powered binoculars and cameras equipped with t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 41:05
Michael Baldwin member_of
Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted
“that were not only Caucasian, but were identified as Americans. The team leader, Michael Baldwin, was apparently taken aback. He explained, my God, look, there they are. And they're Caucasian. Baldwin then employed a high-powered bargain pa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 41:29
CIA covered_up
Operation Eagle Claw host_asserted
“They intended to go to Congress later to get a supplemental, but Honey Badger never went down. Instead, diplomatic prospects improved and an accommodation was arranged. And after 144 days of captivity, the Americans were released on January…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 11:00
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So, oh, and he was involved in Operation Eagle Claw, which was the Iranian hostage crisis. And let's see. He was brought out of retirement for the 9-11 attack because, of course, he was. He also spent time in the 50s.…
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BNDD agents immediately felt the impact of the CIA's involvement in drug law enforcement operations within the United States. Operation Eagle was a flashpoint. Launched in 1970, Eagle targeted anti-Castro Cubans smuggling cocaine from Latin…
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a CIA terror organization active in the U.S., the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. The revelation that CIA drug smuggling assets were operating inside the United States led to the assignment of CIA officers as counterparts …
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Also, given satellite photos and other intelligence data, the operation was codenamed Grand Eagle. Dr. Death, Weakley, was Gritz's right-hand man. In congressional testimony, Gritz said that Grand Eagle was officially shelved after a bureau…
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And we created their national police, the SABAC. So they're basically a vassal state of the U.S. And they have all of this military technology exchange, which would kind of mean the U.S. was facilitating Israel getting nuclear weapons. Just…
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order to carry out a mission to rescue the hostages. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned in protest. On April 24th, the mission commenced. Nearly everything that could go wrong went wrong. A plane collision at a remote point killed eigh…
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in Iran in the 1970s as the Deputy Defense, oh crap, Defense Security Assistance Agency. So basically, this Colonel Wesley Scott is the same kind of arrangement that we saw with the military officers with Otto Skorzeny out of the Spain cons…
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During the Iran-Contra affair. So Donald Gregg, he's CIA, a Carter National Security Council aide, again, he's CIA, who had nothing to do with Iran, went out of his way to see Cyrus Kashimi. It should have seemed very suspect. Donald Gregg …
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Within days, the CIA had identified a site and prepared to fly a small aircraft into it to take soil samples to make sure it would support the landing of the helicopters in the C-130. Turner ordered the plane pre-positioned at Rome and went…
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Intelligence remained a striking sticking point, you know, because we don't spend billions of dollars on it. Special Operation veterans of Eagle Claw condemned the intelligence as inferior and Turner as having lukewarm, being lukewarm at be…
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and charged two others, Malcolm Kalp and Philip Ward, as being CIA, they refused to release anybody else. It's my opinion, strictly my opinion, that just about everybody there was CIA under cover, which is what they do. Those were the only …
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would proceed into Tehran in trucks, free the hostages, escape in the helicopters to a third airfield to be taken over by U.S. Rangers, and the whole command would leave aboard C-130s that had returned to pick them up. Eagle Claw remained a…
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Meadows became involved in the planning just a few days after the embassy seizure when Beckwith sent him to Washington. A legendary special forces figure in Korea and Vietnam, Meadows now struck the CIA as an amateur with insufficient suppo…
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These were created by the CIA at the behest of Chuck Gilbert. At least three times, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David Jones, Admiral Turner, and Security Advisor Brzezinski appealed to Carter to approve the mission. A…
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Carter preferred to await diplomatic developments, but new preparations were necessary. Stanford Turner had pressed for permission to make Desert One reconnaissance since January. Carter then approved it, the reconnaissance mission to get t…
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that they're anticipating on using. It's fine. The second omen came at London's Heathrow Airport while Carney waited with his samples for a Concorde flight home. Two CIA officers appeared in the lounge and used his real name. Um, probably n…
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Cyrus Vance, had opposed this for months, favoring UN mediation, but Carter didn't want to delay. The next day, an SC staffer, Gary Sick, prepared a memo for Brzezinski picturing Eagle Claw as preferable over any other option. I don't know …
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talking to the UN, maybe negotiating something. I don't know, but that definitely wasn't going to happen. After a redraft, Brzezinski gave it to the president. As the exhausted Vance vacationed in Florida, Carter held another NSC session on…
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Richard Keith. A Virginian Meadows southern accent apparently struck the Iranian as Irish enough. Holy crap. He arrived in Tehran on April 21st, three days before the scheduled start of Eagle Claw. Just as Delta Force flew across the Atlant…
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And then to the Nimitz to check on the helicopters. One of the choppers encountered navigational problems. Two more suffered mechanical failures in a dust storm. Their innocent Iranian passerby in a bus and trucks blundered into the Delta o…
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Yeah, imagine that. Following the third helicopter abort, Colonel Beckwith considered that he no longer had enough ships to proceed. The Joint Task Force commanders decided to terminate the operation. Then, in a horrible accident, one of th…
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Losses could have been higher except for the heroic efforts of some of the fellow military members on the ground. The hostage rescue had failed. Iranian authorities quickly dispersed the American hostages who would not be together again. Al…
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Americans out of their embassy in Tehran, Director Turner gave no prior notice to the intelligence committees who were briefed hours after the Americans were out of the country. The pushing at the envelope of newly established congressional…
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Rescue mission obliged Carter through the sec-deaf Harold Brown. Yeah, he comes back up later in the Clinton administration, Harold Brown. And the Joint Chiefs of Staff to reveal the existence of Operation Eagle Claw. The Carter administrat…
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We're on page 464, concluding the chapter Rogue Elephant to Resurrection. We stopped when we were talking about Desert One and the Carter administration's and his Cyrus Vance talking about that operation.…
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overcame Pentagon politics. In this case, the services demands that each be part of the task force. Some criticisms of Eagle Claw centered on inadequate planning. There had not been enough helicopters. The requirement to use the unit preclu…
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A unit to facilitate deep cover missions, soon renamed the Intelligence Support Activity. Air Force HH-53 helicopters with better avionics to navigate sandstorms were substituted for the Navy craft used in Eagle Claw. As preparations contin…
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When Operation Grand Eagle, the patrol's codename, returned to Bangkok, the film was confiscated by the local CIA. It disappeared, never to be seen again. Barnes and Baldwin, mystified over the turn of events and disappointed that the Ameri…
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I'm postulating here, but is it possible that they deliberately sabotaged, what was it, Eagle Claw? In the book, there were people who said that that happened, that there were mechanical issues on the two aircraft that we lost initially.…