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Argo

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

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By: Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
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 The true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran

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’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—directors, producers, actors—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.

Antonio Mendez finally details the mind-bogglingly complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A true story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. Americas Freedom & Security Middle East Political Science Politics & Government United States Espionage Celebrity Entertainment Iran
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It came across as being told as truefully as it is possible to tell a true story from one perspective and it offered fascinating looks into a life that you would ordinarily not be able to see into. A world and life of secrecy.

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The Argo movie is just one element of a much more in-depth book. I really enjoyed how the book delved into the Iranian political situation and other CIA missions. Excellent!

So much more in-depth than the movie.

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