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Chambers was awarded CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit for his involvement in the Canadian Caper, in which six American hostages escaped during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The incident was the basis of the film Argo, which won the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture, [1] and in which Chambers was played by John Goodman.
The "Canadian Caper" was the joint covert rescue by the Canadian government and the CIA of six American diplomats who had evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, after the Iranian Revolution, when Islamist students took most of the American embassy personnel hostage, demanding the return of the US-backed Shah for trial.
Argo is a 2012 American thriller film [1] directed, produced by, and starring Ben Affleck.The screenplay, written by Chris Terrio, was adapted from the 1999 memoir The Master of Disguise by U.S. C.I.A. operative Tony Mendez and the 2007 Wired article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" [4] written by Joshuah Bearman and edited by Nicholas ...
John J. Hicks, former director of National Photographic Interpretation Center; for his work during the Cuban Missile Crisis. [12] J.B.E. Hittle; Stephen Kasarda [13] Mark Kelton, former deputy director of the National Clandestine Service for Counterintelligence [14] George V. Lauder [15] Harry E. Mason; Edmund H. Nowinski (twice) [16] James ...
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers' New Book Rings Alarm Bells on U.S. Economy. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in ...
"Review of Master of Disguise", Studies in Intelligence v. 46 No. 1 (2002) A Classic Case of Deception Mendez on the background of the Canadian Caper, Studies in Intelligence, Winter 1999–2000 "Tony Mendez, clandestine CIA hero of Ben Affleck's 'Argo,' reveals the real story behind film smash". The Washington Times. October 10, 2012.
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer sits down with JC2 Ventures CEO, John Chambers. Chambers also served as former executive chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.
Chambers II, John Whiteclay. OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II (NPS, 2008) online; chapters 1-2 and 8-11 provide a useful summary history of OSS by a scholar. Cibulka, Erich. Deckname Dogwood. Erinnerungen an Alfred Schwarz. Buchschmiede, Wien 2022, ISBN 978-3-99139-139-5; Dawidoff, Nicholas.