Argo: how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
✍ Scribed by United States. Central Intelligence Agency.;Mendez, Antonio J.;Playaway Digital Audio.;Blackstone Audio, Inc.;Findaway World, LLC.;Baglio, Matt;Baker, Dylan
- Publisher
- Manufactured and distributed by Findaway World, LLC
- Year
- 2012,2013
- Tongue
- Spanish
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Canada--Iran., Iran--Canada., Solon, Ohio, United States., Canada., Iran.
- ISBN
- 147083250X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
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.;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.
✦ Subjects
United States