Incredible new details are emerging of how the U.S. was able to locate and rescue the downed pilot in Iran.
This makes me so proud to be an American!
Thank you to everyone who worked so tirelessly on this, you are all heroes!
🚨 BREAKING: The whole world is in awe on Easter Sunday after the US carried out a MASTERCLASS rescue of our airman in Iran
“The CIA was using deception tactics on the ground to make the Iranians think they’d already located the pilot!”
“This crewman was inside enemy territory… pic.twitter.com/mGvByxa3PD
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 5, 2026
Check this out, from Fox News:
The “daring” U.S. military rescue of a “seriously wounded” airman is being hailed as an American success story, as President Donald Trump announced “we got him!” and detailed the “AMAZING show of bravery and talent,” turning a potential American setback into a show of might.
Details about the rescue are trickling in, including senior administration officials telling Fox News how the CIA deflected enemy attention with a “deception campaign.”
The CIA spread word in Iran through multiple sources that U.S. forces had already found the second of two airmen who ejected from their F-15, and were moving him out of Iran in a maritime exfiltration elsewhere, sources told Fox News, but that was designed to buy time to find the stranded weapons system officer.
The CIA picked up a distress signal, passing the intelligence on to the Pentagon and White House, which ordered the immediate rescue mission, according to sources.
There was initial fear the “beacon signal” was an Iranian “trap,” sources said.
“There was a lot at stake here,” the source said.
Once the CIA confirmed Saturday morning that this was not a trap, the missing airman was located using advanced technical capabilities.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe informed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan “Raizin’” Caine and, ultimately, Trump.
“Within eight hours, we had planes in motion,” the source said. “Within almost 12 hours we were on the ground in Iran.
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