Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history / Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio.
Mendez, Antonio J.; Baglio, Matt.
2012
E183.8.I55 M46 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history / Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio.
Author Mendez, Antonio J.
ISBN 9780670026227
0670026220
Imprint New York : Viking, 2012.
Language English
Description viii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E183.8.I55 M46 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 955.05/42
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Baglio, Matt.
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Welcome 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.

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