Argo how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history
This is a true story of secret identities and international intrigue; it is the gripping account of the history making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage. It relates the true account of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stor...
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Viking,
2012.
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Table of 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.
