David McCloskey
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You need a load of documents.
I mean, what documents would you need, Gordon?
It's a leading question, Gordon.
I think, yes, Canadian identities, Canadian pocket litter, Canadian driver's licenses, all of this stuff is Canadian documentation.
Big bags.
And in this case, it's the Canadian diplomatic pouches.
I mean, it's literally a guy who takes them, a bag.
Into the embassy.
The hand carries it.
And a hand carries it the whole way, a Canadian citizen.
So it's not... An Iranian national is not handling that bag at any point in its journey.
So it's not X-rayed, intercepted, searched, nothing like that.
So all of that, you're right, it's being produced...
in this joint operation between the Canadians and the CIA in Ottawa, and then sent by diplomatic pouch to Tehran.
They disguised kits.
Now, disguised full-on transformational disguises don't play a role in this operation, so there's no prosthetics or anything like that.
Mendes did consider it, but none of them had any experience with prosthetics.
And he felt like, again, if you're going through the airport and your ear falls off- It doesn't look good.
People pay attention.
Your mustache goes like that.