Kenneth D. Taylor
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Kenneth D. Taylor
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Kenneth Douglas Taylor was a Canadian diplomat, educator and businessman, best known for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the "Canadian Caper" when he was the Canadian ambassador to Iran. With the cooperation of the American Central Intelligence Agency, Taylor helped six Americans escape from Iran during the Iran hostage crisis by procuring Canadian passports for the Americans to deceive the Iranian Revolutionary guard by posing as a Canadian film crew scouting locations. Had the IRG
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Canadian diplomat (1934–2015)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_D._Taylor
date created:
2004-03-18T06:23:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T21:23:00Z
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