This image of a painting hanging at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is an artist's take on former CIA officers Antonio "Tony" Mendez, face visible, and Edward B. Johnson preparing documents to smuggle American diplomats out of Tehran, Iran, in 1980. Edward B. Johnson, who as a Central Intelligence Agency officer traveled into Iran with a colleague to rescue six American diplomats who fled the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, has died, the CIA confirmed on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. He was 81. (CIA via AP)