Mendez, Antonio J. <br/><br/>
Argo :  how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history / 
Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio. 
 - New York :  Viking,  c2012. 
 - viii, 310 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-310). 
<br/><br/> In 1979 Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages; six Americans escaped. CIA agent Antonio Mendez devised a plan to rescue them. He and his team pretended to film a foreign movie in Iran in an attempt to rescue the six escaped Americans.    
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780670026227 (hc) 0670026220 (hc) 9780147509734 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012014991 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Mendez, Antonio J.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.<br/>Diplomats--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Canada--Foreign relations--Iran.<br/>Iran--Foreign relations--Canada.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E183.8.I55  / M46 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>955.05/42