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Argo, how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history, Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio

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Argo, how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history, Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

other

Main title

Argo

Medium

digital audio book

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Oclc number

816978455

Responsibility statement

Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio

Sub title

how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history

Summary

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. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And 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 traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

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