David McCloskey

You mentioned the Guild Union cards.

You need those.

Receipts, ticket stubs, dry cleaning slips.

You need to look like you are coming from...

montreal toronto vancouver la and that in your wallet in your belongings is the actual life of a person because you think that you don't travel with a bag that's totally empty of this stuff yeah so once you've got all of that together we're heading towards the end of january now aren't we where effectively you've got this

He's not.

And this guy's totally written out of the film.

But by late January, Mendez

and his partner are in Frankfurt, Germany doing final preparations.

Now, his partner is a guy he calls Julio in the book.

Julio is actually a guy named Ed Johnson, who is a CIA linguist who had worked with Mendez on previous operations, and he's also got a lot of documents expertise.

He is originally from the Midwest, but he'd studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

He speaks German, Spanish, Persian, and French.

Fairly valuable and very good with documents.

And in Europe, both guys were going to go in, Ed slash Julio and Tony.

They're going to go get legal visas to Iran under their alias identities.

So both guys get these legal visas to Iran under their alias identities.

Again, you don't...

You don't want to forge those if you can help it.

And so Mendez, on the morning of the 23rd of January, drives from Frankfurt to Bonn with a disguise officer to obtain his own Iranian visa.