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The true bank account of the 1979 recovery 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 which little-known footnote to the turmoil: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent called Antonio Mendez devised a nifty little yet incredibly dangerous plan to rescue them. Armed with international film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA realtors and Hollywood insiders - directors, manufacturers, actors - journeyed to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fraudulent film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect scenery and backdrops, the team succeeded in getting in touch with the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran with out a one shot being fired. Antonio Mendez finally details the mind-bogglingly complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A genuine story of key identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping bank account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.
