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- Our man in Tehran : the true story behind the secret mission to save six Americans during the Iran Hostage Crisis and the foreign ambassador who worked with the CIA to bring them home / by Wright, Robert A.(Robert Anthony),1960-(CARDINAL)682964;
Includes bibliographical references and filmography (pages 349-394) and index.Tehran -- The unlikely ambassador -- Revolution -- The downward spiral -- The overthrow of the Shah -- Ayatollah Khomeini in power -- Fateful decisions -- Hostages and Houseguests -- Marg bar Amrika! -- On the run -- Diplomatic maneuvers -- Coming in from the cold -- Walking laps in the ballroom -- Stalemate -- Intelligence -- This is war -- A close call -- Exfiltration -- The Canadian plan -- Passports and visas -- The flight of the houseguests -- Aftershocks -- Thanks, Canada -- Fallout -- Yellow ribbons -- Our man in New York.In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing ordeal and the men and women who were working undercover in Tehran to bring the hostage crisis to an end.The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated the American embassy in Tehran. What began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that would see fifty-four embassy personnel held hostage, most for 444 days. As Tehran exploded in a revolution, six American diplomats escaped. For three months, Ken Taylor, the Canadian ambassador to Iran, concealed them, always afraid that the revolutionary government would find out. Until now, the true story behind Taylor's involvement in the escape and the Eagle Claw commando raid has remained classified. This book takes us back to a major historical flashpoint and unfolds a story that brings a new understanding of the strained relationship between the Unites States and Iran.The author puts newly unclassified documents to use in recounting how Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor hid six Americans who had slipped out a side door and gathered intelligence for the U.S. government during the Iran Hostage Crisis.- Subjects: Biographies.; Taylor, Kenneth, 1934-; Ambassadors; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic and consular service, Canadian; Diplomats; Escapes; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.;
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- Collapse of a country : a diplomat's memoir of South Sudan / by Coghlan, Nicholas,1954-author.(CARDINAL)352786;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index."As the first Canadian diplomat to be posted to war-torn Sudan, in 2000, Nicholas Coghlan was a natural choice to head up Canada's diplomatic representation in the new Republic of South Sudan, soon after peace talks resulted in the secession of the South in 2011. Coghlan and his wife Jenny were on hand in Juba when, barely two years later, the capital erupted in gunfire and a new civil war began, pitting one half of the army against the other, Vice President Machar against President Kiir, the Nuer tribe against the Dinka. The Coghlans would later be honored by the Government of Canada for their role in helping evacuate dozens of Canadians of South Sudanese extraction who were now forced to flee for their lives. This action-focussed narrative, grounded by accounts of meetings with key players and by travels throughout the dangerous, impoverished hinterland of South Sudan, explains what happened in December 2013 and why. It describes in harrowing terms the ebb and flow of war and the humanitarian tragedy which followed, and the well-meant but often confused and ill-conceived attempts of the international community to mitigate the misery and bring peace back to a land that has rarely known it. South Sudan's civil war simmers on today, largely ignored by the West. Coghlan's stark narrative serves as an object lesson to statesmen, to diplomats, to aid workers and development practitioners. As General (retd) Romeo Dallaire, UN commander at the time of the Rwanda genocide (1994) warns: 'This place smells bad.'"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Coghlan, Nicholas, 1954-; Diplomats; Diplomatic and consular service, Canadian;
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