Argo: How The CIA And Hollywood Pulled Off The Most Audacious Rescue In History

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. There is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. A top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet risky plan to rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, Mendez and a team of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. They contacted the escapees and smuggled them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez details this complex and dangerous operation, a story of secret identities and international intrigue, highlighting the collaboration between Hollywood and espionage.