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Most filmgoers are likely familiar with the Academy Award-winning movie Argo, Hollywood's rather imaginative account of the rescue of six American diplomats sheltered by the Canadian ambassador to Iran after the capture of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979. (Winning the 2013 Oscar for Best Picture brought the film a great deal of additional publicity.) Others may have read the book of the same name by retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Antonio (Tony) Mendez. 1 Or they might have read Tony's earlier article on the same operation in the CIA's internal professional journal Studies in Intelligence shortly after its declassification.
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