Operation: Goldenrod | FBI

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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During the 1980s, a rash of hostage situations in the Middle East threatened American lives. in response, President Reagan authorised new legislation which empowered the FBI to hunt the hostage takers down - any time, any place. Former Assistant Director Oliver 'Buck' Revell led the first operation of this kind - a daring plot to capture a Lebanese hijacker off the coast of Cyprus. Vanessa Kirby joins Buck for a make-or-break mission in the Med. Could YOU make history? From SPYSCAPE, the HQ of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Morgan Childs. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	brought to you by Aspire MungFront on ITVX, a six-part drama of friendship and betrayal,
0:08.6	starring Damien Lewis and Guy Pierce. The coldest war is within. Aspire MungFront.
0:17.0	Stream free on ITVX.
0:24.0	Incoming transmission.
0:26.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:29.0	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:32.0	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:35.0	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:41.0	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:46.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:51.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:55.0	This is True Spies.
0:58.0	I was watching ThuBanOkkutters. They couldn't see us.
1:01.0	And it came on board very gleefully shaking hands,
1:04.0	patting people on the back, delighted to be there,
1:07.0	where he was getting ready to make a major drug deal.
1:10.0	This is True Spies.
1:13.0	Episode 93. Operation Golden Rod.
1:19.0	It was the 11th of June, 1985.
1:25.0	70 passengers and crew members had settled in for a flight from Beirut Lebanon.
1:31.0	Everything seemed normal, or as normal as it could have been.
1:36.0	Civil war had been raging in Lebanon for a decade,
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