Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escape of the six began on the rainy day of the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4. While the assault centered on the main embassy building, five of the six escapees were working in an adjoining consular section within the compound. Mark Lijek had been processing visas that morning. Among his visitors was Kim King, 27, a tourist from Oregon who had stayed on in Iran for six months to teach English to local businessmen. He had both overstayed his visa and lost his passport, with its date-of-entry stamp, and he sought Lijek...
...touch with the three U.S. diplomats being held under house arrest at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Taylor ingratiated himself with local officials as a friendly and neutral diplomat. He learned just what documents and procedures would be needed in the processing of embassy personnel in and out of Tehran under the erratic Ayatullah Khomeini government. He began sending some of his own staff" on unnecessary flights to establish a travel pattern and to study the clearance procedures...
...Canadian Cabinet met on Jan. 4 and approved a rare secret directive to issue Canadian passports to the six Americans-although not in their own names. The Americans were given the names of fictitious Canadian businessmen or technicians who would have valid reasons to travel to Tehran. U.S. sources have conceded that the CIA provided "technical assistance." This apparently consisted of helping to fabricate the necessary Iranian visa stamps...
...Back in Tehran, the outwitted captors of the U.S. hostages and government officials were apoplectic. "This is illegal, it's illegal!" raged one of the militants guarding the U.S. embassy. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, just defeated in his quest for the presidency, vowed: "Sooner or later, somewhere in the world, Canada will pay." Whatever "hardness or harshness" now befalls the American hostages, he threatened, "it's only the Canadian government that will be responsible...
...incident occurred at the height of American public outrage over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran's refusal to release the 50 hostages being held at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Jimmy Carter had just announced a program of sanctions against the Soviet Union, including an embargo on shipments of grain to the U.S.S.R., and U.S. longshoremen were balking at handling any Soviet cargoes. Then, Local 160 of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) posted a notice on a bulletin board at the Kennedy tower urging members not to guide Soviet or Iranian aircraft...