Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)

From the Publisher: 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.||