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000455554 1001_ $$aMendez, Antonio J.
000455554 24510 $$aArgo :$$bhow the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history /$$cAntonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio.
000455554 260__ $$aNew York :$$bViking,$$c2012.
000455554 300__ $$aviii, 310 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000455554 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000455554 5050_ $$aWelcome to the revolution -- Picking up the pieces -- Diplomacy -- Nowhere to run -- Canada to the rescue -- Lessons from the past -- Assembling the team -- Cover story -- Hollywood -- Studio Six -- A cosmic conflagration -- Getting ready to launch -- On location in Iran -- Final preparations -- The escape -- Aftermath.
000455554 520__ $$aThis 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.
000455554 60010 $$aMendez, Antonio J.
000455554 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bCentral Intelligence Agency.
000455554 650_0 $$aIran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
000455554 650_0 $$aDiplomats$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000455554 651_0 $$aCanada$$xForeign relations$$zIran.
000455554 651_0 $$aIran$$xForeign relations$$zCanada.
000455554 7001_ $$aBaglio, Matt.
000455554 85200 $$bgen$$hE183.8.I55$$iM46$$i2012
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