[Blue Leader]

I'm not certain where you get your information but please allow me to bring you up to date. Our folks ran to the Canadian Embassy for refuge and the Canucks brought them all out, alive. One of my people was on the exfil and he gave me a full debrief of the operation. He's a gutsy guy but he said he figured they were going to fumble it during the very thorough Iranian exit procedures. That didn't happen and all made it out OK but the CIA was sitting on their collective butts in DC and had nothing to do with it. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was an excellent TV program about this some years ago. The Americans had to practice Canadian pronunciations and become knowledgeable about Canadian teams in case some Iranian official at the airport started quizzing them (since they were pretending to be Canadians).

[Mark17]

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

I saw it on the History Channel. Whether it is true or not is another issue, but they had it there, and said it was CIA, not the Canadians. Either way, it was good they got out, no matter who did it.

[Caesar Soze]

The Canadian embassy personnel did provide a safe refuge for the American personnel, but the exfiltration was a CIA operation (with Canadian cooperation). Read more here.