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Author Mendez, Antonio J.

Title Argo : how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history / Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  955.05 MENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  955.0542 M522    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  955.054 MENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  955.0542 MENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  955.0542 MENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  955.05 MEN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  955.05 MEN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Non Fiction  955.05 MENDEZ    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  955.0542 MEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  955.0542 MENDEZ    Check Shelf

Description viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310).
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.
Summary This book relates 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. But there is a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. 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 ideal backdrops, the team succeeded in contacting the escapees and smuggling them out of Iran without a single shot. Here the author finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago.--From publisher description.
Subject Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Canada -- Foreign relations -- Iran.
Iran -- Foreign relations -- Canada.
Mendez, Antonio J.
Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Baglio, Matt.
ISBN 9780670026227 hardback
0670026220 hardback
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