Featured Contributors
Dec 19, 2021
1 minute
Pete McKenzie
ete’s feature in this month’s magazine on the incredible — and until now unknown — involvement of two wily Kiwi diplomats in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis was. A throwaway comment about New Zealand in the dialogue caught his interest, sending him down a reporting rabbit hole of spies, classified documents, and closely held secrets — kept by some until their dying day. As a kid Pete wanted to be a spy, then a diplomat. He says this story reminds him of what drew him to both professions.
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