Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
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Mendez, Antonio J.
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Baglio, Matt
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Baker, Dylan
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Blackstone Publishing 2012
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Antonio J. Mendez. (2012). Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Antonio J. Mendez. 2012. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History. Blackstone Publishing.

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Antonio J. Mendez, Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

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Antonio J. Mendez. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2012.

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        Antonio J. Mendez served in the CIA for twenty-five years. He is the recipient of several honors, including the Intelligence Star for Valor. He is the author of Spy Dust and The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA. He is co-author with Matt Baglio of Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History. He lives with his family in rural Washington County, Maryland.

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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, and 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 this history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.

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