In the midst of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, the C.I.A.
began what came to be noted as one of the spy agency’s most successful publicly known operations: the rescue of six American diplomats who had escaped the overrun U.S. Embassy — using a fake movie as the cover story.
“Argo,” the real-life 2012 movie about the C.I.A.’s fake movie, portrayed a single C.I.A.
officer, Tony Mendez, played by Ben Affleck, sneaking into Tehran to rescue the American diplomats in a daring operation.
For the first time on Thursday, the C.I.A.
Persons:
“, Tony Mendez, Ben Affleck, Ed Johnson, Mr, Johnson, Mendez
Organizations:
Embassy
Locations:
Iran, U.S, Tehran, cajole