How Steven Spielberg Played A Role In The True Story Behind Argo
I am one of the few people that I know that has not seen the film Argo yet. I totally understand your disappointment in me. The worst part is that I don’t have a good excuse for this. For those of you who have seen the film, here is a cool little story from Blastr that you can add to the crazy situation.
Argo tells the true story of how a CIA agent named Tony Mendez (played by director Ben Affleck) staged an operation to rescue six Americans who had escaped and were hiding at the Canadian embassy in Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis in which the Iranians held 52 other Americans in captivity.
Mendez came up with the cover story of pretending to be a Canadian producer looking to shoot a science fiction film on locations in Iran, with the idea being that the six Americans would leave with him,...
Argo tells the true story of how a CIA agent named Tony Mendez (played by director Ben Affleck) staged an operation to rescue six Americans who had escaped and were hiding at the Canadian embassy in Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis in which the Iranians held 52 other Americans in captivity.
Mendez came up with the cover story of pretending to be a Canadian producer looking to shoot a science fiction film on locations in Iran, with the idea being that the six Americans would leave with him,...
- 10/17/2012
- by Billy Fisher
- GeekTyrant
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