Canadian ambassador to Iran was CIA spy

i knew the canucks were good for something.

Canada’s Ambassador to Tehran Was a CIA Spy
Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s ambassador to Tehran from 1977 to 1980, Ken Taylor, who helped hide U.S. embassy personnel during the Iranian revolution, was a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Globe and Mail reported.

Taylor won widespread U.S. gratitude and became the “de facto CIA station chief” in Tehran after Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy in 1979, taking 63 people hostage, the Globe said, citing an interview with the former ambassador.

Taylor’s intelligence-gathering activities, which included helping plan an armed incursion into Iran, were kept secret by agreement between the Canadian and U.S. governments, the newspaper said.

Had his spying been discovered Taylor told the Globe “the Iranians wouldn’t have tolerated it and the consequences may have been severe."

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