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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio)


Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio

Blurb: The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran - now a major Ben Affleck film

On 4 November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans hostage. Beneath the crisis another shocking story was known by only a select few: six Americans escaped the embassy and hid within the city.

A top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet risky plan to rescue them. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of CIA operatives, foreign agents and special-effects artists, Mendez travelled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science-fiction film called Argo.

After three decades, Antonio Mendez finally details this extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the pulse-pounding account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.

ISBN: 9780241964590 (Paperback)
Year: 1980
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 310 (Non-Fiction)

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