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David McCloskey

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The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

There's a Tehran to Zurich flight.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

It's exactly the route that he used to exfiltrate Raptor early in the year.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Switzerland, obviously a neutral country.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

The Swissair desk at Maribat International Airport historically had light scrutiny.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

This is one of the other things that I think Mendez talks about.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

pretty extensively in his book that you don't see in the film is the CIA and potentially the Canadians having sent in kind of people who had a legitimate reason to go in and out of

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

How it works.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Sort of how it works.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

What documents do you need?

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

How are they checked?

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Yeah, really important.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

That very up-to-date nitty gritty detail is really, really important.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

The Canadian ambassador, so Taylor's wife, had been booking and rebooking tickets across multiple dates.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

So that whenever the green light for the operation came, they would have seats on a flight on that day.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

The film shows the Bryan Cranston character, Affleck's boss in charge of the tickets.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

But the real tickets had been purchased in Tehran by the Canadian ambassador's wife.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

The secondary documents you talked about, Gordon, Canadian driver's licenses, apparently very difficult to maintain because again, you want that to be a real driver's license.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Mendes had one of his guys spending over a week in Ottawa working out with the Canadians how you get the driver's licenses.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

You need health cards.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

You need business cards, obviously, in each house guest's name.