== Canadian Caper details == 

 There has been some IP edit warring over the flight details of the six Americans who escaped via the Canadian embassy in what became known as the Canadian Caper. The warring is over the date, the air carrier and the destination cities. Of course, the main article about the caper should be where the most details are found, but here we can give a brief summary. This is what the sources say: 
 *Tony Mendez wrote in "CIA Goes Hollywood – A Classic Case of Deception" that Swissair was chosen for its reputation for regularity. The tickets were for the destination of Zurich, Switzerland, boarding at 7:30 am on Monday, January 28, 1980. 
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 *Tim Weiner writes in Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, page 431, that the flight was Swissair to Zurich on Monday. 
 *Jean Pelletier in 1981's The Canadian Caper wrote that it was Sunday, January 27, and that the "destination [was] Frankfurt, West Germany, with a stopover in Zurich." (Page 210). The Swissair tickets were the primary ones, with various backup tickets purchased on KLM, British Airways, and Air France. 
 *The Canadian Encyclopedia gives this version: "On January 27, 1980, Canada's American guests navigated their way nervously through the airport and onto an early morning flight to Frankfurt." 
 *Mark Kearney and Randy Ray write in Whatever Happened To.?: Catching Up With Canadian Icons, page 45, that the flight was to Frankfurt on Monday, January 28. 
 *Dr Robert Wright, Trent University historian, writes in Our Man in Tehran, page 371, that the flight was Swissair #363 from Tehran to Zurich on Monday, January 28. Pat Taylor, the wife of Canadian diplomat Kenneth D. Taylor, flew out alone on Sunday, "one day ahead of her husband and the American diplomats". Multiple tickets were purchased as a contingency plan, on British Airways and Air France, for flights leaving later on Monday. 
 *In May 1980, the New Yorker magazine printed a story saying that the Swissair flight was on January 28, flying from Tehran to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany and then to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, USA. Of course, this version misses the Zurich connection; Swissair does not fly directly to American air bases. In Argo, page 309, Mendez says the six transferred in a van from a secret mountain hideaway near Zurich to Ramstein AFB to make the Atlantic crossing in an American plane. He does not name the landing site in North America. 

 In trying to balance the above sources, it is clear that Swissair was really the carrier, and Monday is the day according to the most closely involved people. Frankfurt appears to be either wrong or a subterfuge; Zurich was where the six got off the plane.