Video: 'Six US Diplomats Escape Iran Disguised as Canadians - CBS Evening News - January 29, 1980'

(Monday, January 28, 1980; during the Canadian Caper, part of the Iran hostage crisis) — Six U.S. diplomats who had avoided being taken hostage by Iranian students at their embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and hid for three months in the Canadian embassy boarded a Swissair flight to Zürich at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran and escaped Iran today with the help of Canadian diplomats.

Video: 'Canadian Caper: 6 Americans escape from Iran with the help from the CIA and the Canadian Embassy.wmv'