The Canadian Caper: Canada's Role in the Iran Hostage Crisis
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Abstract
Episode 267: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants attacked the US embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 diplomats and staff members hostage. Remarkably, six diplomats managed to slip away unnoticed. These individuals were Robert Anders, Cora Lijek, Mark Lijek, Joseph Stafford, Kathleen Stafford, and Lee Schatz. Schatz sought refuge at the Swedish embassy, while the others went to the British embassy. However, upon nearing the embassy, they encountered a large crowd of protestors obstructing their path. Consequently, they decided to take shelter at Anders' residence and devise their next steps. After six harrowing days, the six American diplomats sought refuge at the Canadian embassy. The Canadian Ambassador to Iran, Ken Taylor, and his team provided shelter to the American diplomats and false Canadian passports. The Canadian government played a critical role in the mission to rescue them. The then-Canadian Prime Minister, Joe Clark, approved the operation and fully supported Ambassador Taylor and his team. The rescue mission, known as the \\"Canadian Caper,\\" involved the creation of a fake movie production company called \\"Studio Six\\" and the production of a fake science fiction film called \\"Argo.\\" The Canadian embassy staff, along with the American diplomats, managed to escape from Iran using a combination of air travel and ground transportation. They were safely evacuated from Iran on January 28, 1980. The role played by Canada in the hostage crisis was highly appreciated by the US government and earned Canada international recognition for helping resolve the crisis.Sources:How the Shah's Cancer May Have Changed HistoryThe Iranian Revolution - A timeline of eventsKen Taylor and the Canadian CaperOur Man In Tehran by Robert Wright - Ebook | ScribdThe Canadian Caper - Pelletier, Jean | Internet ArchiveKen Taylor and the \\"Canadian Caper\\" | The Canadian EncyclopediaCanada history: Jan 27, 1980 - The famous \\"Canadian Caper\\" rescue - RCI | EnglishWhat you won't see in Argo - Macleans.caArgo, F**k Yourself: Iran and the Oscars - The Diplomat'We lost a true hero': Ken Taylor, 1934-2015 - Macleans.caTony Mendez, former CIA officer and inspiration for 'Argo,' dies at 78 - National | Globalnews.caKen Taylor satisfied with Affleck's shoutout to Canada during Oscar speech | Globalnews.caCanada and IranU.S. Relations With Iran - United States Department of StateIran - The CIA World FactbookLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
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