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In the late '70s, CIA operative Tony Mendez orchestrated a fake Hollywood movie as a coverto sneak U.S. embassy staff out of Tehran during the 1979 hostage crisis. If you've beenliving under a rock for the last six months, you might not know that that’s thepremise for Ben Affleck's critical and commercial smash Argo. Writer JoshBearman came across snippets of the story from different sources and spent hours on thephone with the principal players, including spook Tony Mendez (whom Affleck plays). The2007 Wired story “TheGreat Escape” was the result. Continue Reading
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