Description: The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from IranOn 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’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 insidersdirectors, producers, actorstraveled 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.Antonio Mendez finally details the mind-bogglingly complex and dangerous operation he led more than three
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EAN: 9780670026227
ISBN: 9780670026227
Book Title: Argo : How the Cia and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / General, Middle East / Iran, International Relations / Diplomacy
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Author: Matt Baglio, Antonio J. Mendez
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
