Ebook: In the Shadow of the Ayatollah A CIA Hostage in Iran

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Assignment to Tehran -- 1. The Assignment -- 2. Retrospective: A History Lesson -- 3. The Soviet Calculus -- 4. The 1995 Coup -- 5. America and Iran, 1955-1977 -- 6. Revolution -- 7. Intelligence Failure -- 8. End of a Regime -- 9. The Shah Comes to the United States -- Part Two: A Guest of Iranian Militants -- 10. 4 November 1979 -- 11. 5 November 1979 -- 12. 6 November 1979 -- 13. 7-22 November 1979 -- 14. 25 November -- 31 December 1979 -- 15. 1 January -- 24 April 1980;Still vivid in many Americans' memories are the 444 days of 1979 when Islamic militants held U.S. diplomatic personnel hostage in Iran. Though their story has been told before, never has it been related from such a perspective. Unique among the hostages, the author was an officer for the Central Intelligence Agency serving at the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Once his CIA connection was discovered, Bill Daugherty became a special target of his captors and was subjected to extraordinarily harsh treatment. He managed to survive the ordeal by relying upon his Marine Corps training and combat experience;16. 24 April - 22 June 1980 -- 17. 22 June - 23 December 1980 -- 19. The Rest of the Story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author