Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Author:	Mendez, Antonio J. Baglio, Matt
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9780147509734
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	310
Publication Date:	2/6/2013
Size:	8.03" l x 5.27" w x 0.78"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Political Science	International Relations
History & Geography	Middle East

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 Argo. 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, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.