Our man in Tehran, the true story behind the secret mission to save six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis and the foreign ambassador who worked with the CIA to bring them home, by Robert Wright
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Our man in Tehran, the true story behind the secret mission to save six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis and the foreign ambassador who worked with the CIA to bring them home, by Robert Wright
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Our man in Tehran
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
609529990
Responsibility statement
by Robert Wright
Review
In this fascinating account of spycraft and compassion, Wright (Three Nights in Havana) puts newly unclassified documents to excellent use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis
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the true story behind the secret mission to save six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis and the foreign ambassador who worked with the CIA to bring them home
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Subject
- Ambassadors -- Canada -- Biography
- Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran
- Diplomats -- United States
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Iran
- Diplomatic and consular service, Canadian -- Iran
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
- Escapes -- Iran
- Taylor, Kenneth, 1934-
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- Ambassadors -- Canada -- Biography
- Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran
- Diplomats -- United States
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Iran
- Diplomatic and consular service, Canadian -- Iran
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
- Escapes -- Iran
- Taylor, Kenneth, 1934-
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