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<b>The true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film <i>ARGO</i>, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture</b> 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 <i>Argo</i>. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, <i>Argo</i> is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.
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Argo, Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- Argo
- Subtitle
- How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Antonio J. Mendez, Matt Baglio
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN10
- 0147509734
- ISBN13
- 9780147509734
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Adventure, Politics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Biographies, Espionage, American History, Near and Middle East
- Description
- <b>The true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film <i>ARGO</i>, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture</b> 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 <i>Argo</i>. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, <i>Argo</i> is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.