Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Antonio Mendez · Matt Baglio
Sep 2012 · Penguin Random House Audio · 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.
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.
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Antonio Mendez served in the CIA for 25 years and is a highly decorated CIA officer, one of the top 50 officers in the CIA's first 50 years and a recipient of the Intelligence Star of Valor for the ARGO operation. The author of The Master of Disguise and Spy Dust, Mendez lives with his family in rural Washington County, Maryland.
Matt Baglio, a reporter living in Rome, has written for the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune. He is the author of ARGO: The True Account of the 1979 Rescue of Six American Hostages from Iran and The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist.
Dylan Baker is a remarkably versatile actor whose chilling breakthrough performance as a pedophile in Todd Solondz's Happiness rocketed him to instant recognition among film critics and art-house patrons. The straight-faced actor has been appearing onstage and in television and film since the early '80s.
Matt Baglio, a reporter living in Rome, has written for the Associated Press and the International Herald Tribune. He is the author of ARGO: The True Account of the 1979 Rescue of Six American Hostages from Iran and The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist.
Dylan Baker is a remarkably versatile actor whose chilling breakthrough performance as a pedophile in Todd Solondz's Happiness rocketed him to instant recognition among film critics and art-house patrons. The straight-faced actor has been appearing onstage and in television and film since the early '80s.
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