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Product NameArgo: How The Cia And Hollywood Pulled Off The Most Audacious Rescue In History
LanguageEnglish
CategoryBook / Magazine / Publication
Amazon.comA Buy on Amazon ~ B00D9TBGNE
Price New5.67 US Dollars    (curriencies)
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Width1.09 inches    (convert)
Height9.26 inches    (convert)
Length6.35 inches    (convert)
AuthorAntonio Mendez, Matt Baglio
Page Count320
BindingHardcover
Published09/13/2012
Long DescriptionThe true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. 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 . While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. 
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