David McCloskey

is going to be on a Lufthansa flight to Zurich and from there to Tehran.

Now, he's sitting in the transit lounge in Zurich and Bendez is going through this kind of last-minute gut check, trying to feel out if there's any reason he should abort the operation.

And he's doing this almost last-minute risk assessment.

And he writes that he has some momentary uncertainty about

Because again, he's just been in Iran helping Exfil Raptor months earlier.

And the embassy has been overrun.

So, in the back of his mind, he's wondering, are the Iranians going to know that it's me?

And might they be waiting to nab me?

But, you know, he thinks it's very unlikely.

The moment of uncertainty passes and he...

He writes, this was a good ops plan and we were ready.

And he will have three days to take six American diplomats out of a country that is going wild with revolution.

In intelligence, information is only as reliable as the source behind it.

It can sound convincing, but the real test is whether it holds up under scrutiny.

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