The Burg ‘Argo’: Read the book first “Argo,” by Antonio Mendez with Matt Baglio, is an engaging, thrilling, dangerous, high risk spy story. Adding to the excitement is the fact that it’s also entirely true …
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The Star.com Argo: The CIA’s side of the story If anyone had bothered to ask Antonio “Tony” Mendez, the real-life CIA agent portrayed by Ben Affleck in the new thriller Argo, about Canada’s contribution to the rescue of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980, there would
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Daily Mail Antonio Mendez: CIA master of disguise posed a Hollywood producer and faked … Ask almost any American adult about the Iran hostage crisis, and you’ll get the outlines of the well-known story: militants storming the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and holding dozens of
Read more →The Wall Street Journal How to Prevent the Iran Hostage Crisis From Happening Again Once again, America is under attack overseas. Radical Muslim extremists have stumbled upon a new tactic in their unrelenting assault on the United States.
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Iranian Hostage Discussion Wednesday, Sept 19, 2012 6:30 PM Location: Discovery Times Square Admission: Free Antonio Mendez, a former C.I.A. intelligence officer and co-author, with Matt Baglio, of “Argo: How the C.I.A. and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History,” will be among the panelists
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Argo the book available in fine bookstores Sept. 13, 2012. 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
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