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Autor: MENDEZ,Antonio
Editorial: PENGUIN GROUP USA
Lenguaje: Inglés
ISBN13: 9780147509734
Reseña: 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.
