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100 1  Mendez, Antonio J. 
245 10 Argo :|bhow the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most 
       audacious rescue in history /|cAntonio J. Mendez and Matt 
       Baglio. 
264  1 New York :|bViking,|c2012. 
300    viii, 310 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310). 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
600 10 Mendez, Antonio J. 
610 10 United States.|bCentral Intelligence Agency. 
650  0 Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981. 
650  0 Diplomats|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  0 Canada|xForeign relations|zIran. 
651  0 Iran|xForeign relations|zCanada. 
700 1  Baglio, Matt. 
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