President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Monday detailed a high-risk rescue deep inside Iran in which U.S. forces — aided by a CIA-led “deception campaign” — raced “against the clock” to locate and recover a wounded airman concealed in a mountain crevice, “invisible to the enemy, but not to the CIA,” after his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down, while evading capture for nearly two days behind enemy lines.

Speaking at a White House news conference following the successful rescue of both the F-15E pilot and his weapons systems officer (WSO), who ejected over Iran after their aircraft was downed Friday morning, Trump described…

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