Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Antonio Mendez (Author), Matt Baglio (Author)
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The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston.
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected.
Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran.
- Rank: #4026 in Books
- Published on: 2012-09-13
- Released on: 2012-09-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.30" h x 5.80" w x 9.10" l, 1.15 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
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