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Operation Eagle Claw: The story behind the failed hostage rescue in Iran

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Operation Eagle Claw: The story behind the failed hostage rescue in Iran

In April 1980, two CIA officers flew Maj. John T. Carney Jr.

, a U. S. Air Force Combat Controller, to a small strip of road in the South Khorasan Province, Iran.

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