Argo - How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Author(s): Antonio J. Mendez; Matt Baglio
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : 0.504395
- : 31 August 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Antonio J. Mendez; Matt Baglio
- : Hardback
- : Ist Edition
- : English
- : 310