Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
Title:
Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
Author:
Mendez, Antonio J.
ISBN:
9780670026227
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Publication Information:
New York : Viking, 2012.
Physical Description:
viii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
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 -- Onlocation in Iran -- Final preparations -- The escape -- Aftermath.
Abstract:
An account of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.
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