The militants had been combing embassy records and figuring out who was CIA. They had even hired teams of carpet weavers to successfully reassemble shredded doc

The militants had been combing embassy records and figuring out who was CIA. They had even hired teams of carpet weavers to successfully reassemble shredded documents. (The recovered papers would later be published by the Iranian government in a series of books called Documents From the US Espionage Den.) https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/68584/during-iranian-hostage-crisis-were-shredded-documents-reassembled-by-children https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/68584/during-ira...