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Argo
How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
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Verlag:
Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: G82NY64
EAN: 9780147509734
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Mo, 13.07.2026
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Beschreibung
The true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film ARGO. , winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture. 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 is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo. is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Antonio Mendez
- Matt Baglio
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 320