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Attack helicopters the air. Attack helicopters and aircraft kept Iranian forces from getting anywhere near where the crewman was hiding.

Armed Iranians had been scouring the mountainous terrain to find him first with the promise of a huge cash reward.

But a Trump administration official tells CBS news, the CIA was deeply involved, not only in the hunt,

but an employ to spread false information inside Iran that U.S. forces had already found him

and were transporting him by ground out of the country.

This is a rescue that's very historic. It'll go down to the books late Thursday night,

an American F-15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating

in Operation Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably

well, well at a level that nobody's ever seen before.

The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.

Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive.

On Iranian soil, I immediately was asked to make a decision.

I ordered the U.S. armed forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home.

A risky decision because we could have ended up with 100 dead as opposed to one or two.

It's a hard decision to make.

But in the United States military, we leave no American behind.

We don't do it.

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