Argo

This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making c... (more)

This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. It relates 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. But there is a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. 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, and actors, traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake film called Argo. While pretending to find the ideal backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot being fired. Here the author finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. (less)

Showcases Argo, the top-secret CIA mission created to rescue six Americans who escaped from the U.S. Embassy takeover in... (more)

Showcases Argo, the top-secret CIA mission created to rescue six Americans who escaped from the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran during 1979. The program analyzes the Iran Hostage crisis, revealing the actions taken by the escapees to seek safety with Canadian diplomats in Tehran. After learning of the six escapedAmericans, CIA agent Tony Mendez devises a cunning plan to rescue the group of diplomats by disguising them as a Hollywood film crew. (less)