U.S. Navy Report: U.S. Sailors Captured By Iran 'Talked Too Much'

U.S. sailors are pictured on a boat with their hands on their heads at an unknown location, January 2016. REUTERS/IRINN VIA REUTERS TV

Reuters: U.S. sailors detained by Iran spoke too much under interrogation: Navy

American sailors who were detained by Iran in January gave away too much information to their captors and were seized in the Gulf following a series of missteps by the crew and their superiors, the U.S. Navy said in a report on Thursday.

The report said some of the 10 crew members, detained at gunpoint Jan. 12 by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had revealed sensitive information, such as phone and laptop passwords, to the Iranians.

At the time of their capture, an international incident that rattled nerves days before the implementation of a nuclear accord between Iran and world powers, the sailors were in transit in two vessels from Kuwait to Bahrain.

Iran used the detentions for propaganda purposes that kept the incident in the headlines for weeks afterward.

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WNU Editor: Name, rank, and serial number. That is what these U.S. sailors should have done.

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