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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.
Argo is a 2012 American biographical historical drama thriller film 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" [3] written by Joshuah Bearman ...
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.
It also led the CIA into a series of further coups in other countries, including Guatemala, where American clandestine action in 1954 installed a military dictator and sparked a 40-year civil war ...
His first book was lauded in 2002 by John Hollister Hedley, former Chairman of the CIA's Publications Review Board, as one of three "landmark memoirs" by former CIA officers. [15] [19] Mendez was interviewed by film director Errol Morris for the First Person TV series. He appeared in the season one episode 11, "The Little Gray Man." [20] [21]
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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 ...