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Gordon Carrera

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

And the message comes back from Canada, yeah, we're going to do this.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

And I think that, you know, firstly, Ken to do that, to take that, to make that decision himself.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

and then run it back by headquarters next is a big call.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

And for the Canadian government to do this is a big call because it is risky, isn't it?

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

I mean, other countries, it looks like, were not so keen on taking the risk of sheltering Americans.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

And this Canadian diplomat and his higher-ups thought, no, no, we're going to do this.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

Yeah.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

And he actually spends a lot of time, doesn't he?

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

He's kind of trying to corral other diplomats in Tehran to complain about this and make more of a thing about it.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

So he and the Canadian government go out on a bit of a limb to do this.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

But of course, they do it secretly.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

We should stress that.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

It might be worth coming back to the Canadian politics of it later because they're very interesting.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

Hold on.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

You thought you were here for CIA Tradecraft.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

We're going to give you Canadian politics.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

That's going to keep everyone listening.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

They can't go out, can they?

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

They really are house guests.

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160. Argo: The Secret Iranian Hostage Crisis (Ep 1)

They are house guests.