Argo: How The Cia And Hollywood Pulled Off The Most Audacious Rescue In History by Matt Baglio and Antonio Mendez

The true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film ARGO, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture 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. This 2013 Penguin Books Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780147509734 SKU: 1582068 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1582068
Location: Non Fiction