David McCloskey
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There's a Tehran to Zurich flight.
It's exactly the route that he used to exfiltrate Raptor early in the year.
Switzerland, obviously a neutral country.
The Swissair desk at Maribat International Airport historically had light scrutiny.
This is one of the other things that I think Mendez talks about.
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
How it works.
Sort of how it works.
What documents do you need?
How are they checked?
Yeah, really important.
That very up-to-date nitty gritty detail is really, really important.
The Canadian ambassador, so Taylor's wife, had been booking and rebooking tickets across multiple dates.
So that whenever the green light for the operation came, they would have seats on a flight on that day.
The film shows the Bryan Cranston character, Affleck's boss in charge of the tickets.
But the real tickets had been purchased in Tehran by the Canadian ambassador's wife.
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.
Mendes had one of his guys spending over a week in Ottawa working out with the Canadians how you get the driver's licenses.
You need health cards.
You need business cards, obviously, in each house guest's name.