Title:
Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history / Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio.
Author:
Mendez, Antonio J., author.
Baglio, Matt.
Baglio, Matt, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
Call Number:
E183.8 .I55 M46 2013
Abstract:
Relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from the Canadian embassy in Tehran during the early days of the Iran Hostage Crisis as the result of an ingenious plan developed by CIA agent Antonio Mendez.
ISBN:
9780147509734
Physical Description:
x, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
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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 -- On location in Iran -- Final preparations -- The escape -- Aftermath.
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