Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history

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Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history

Title remainder

how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history

Statement of responsibility

Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio

Creator

• Mendez, Antonio J

Contributor

• Baglio, Matt

Subject

• Diplomats -- History -- 20th century
• Iran -- Foreign relations -- Canada
• Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
• Canada -- Foreign relations -- Iran
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency
• Mendez, Antonio J

Language

eng

Summary

This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. It relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. But there is a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. A midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders, directors, producers, and actors, traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the ideal backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired. Here the author finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

955.05/42

Index

index present

LC call number

E183.8.I55

LC item number

M46 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography