Operation Eagle Claw fails
- Title
- Operation Eagle Claw fails
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:01:48
- Description
- Andrew Manderstam reports back on the aftermath of the failure of Operation Eagle Claw, the secret mission to rescue American hostages held in Iran (on 24/04/80) and US reaction to the treatment of the dead servicemen’s bodies by the Iranian authorities.
- Contributors
- Andrew Manderstam
- Keywords
- USA; Iran; Deaths; Government; International relations; Military personnel; Jimmy Carter; Hostages; Foreign policy; Presidents; Military operations; Rescue work; Dead bodies
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