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A fire burned merrily in the hearth, and the houseguests had laid out hors d’oeuvres. In Argo, Mendez and the Oscar-winning makeup artist John Chambers—amusingly played by his actual doppelganger, John Goodman—go through dozens of scripts with a veteran Hollywood producer played by Alan Arkin (about whom more below), and Mendez spots a movie called Argo buried in the pile. The Fake Movie He was “spying for the U.S. throughout the hostage crisis, at the request of Jimmy Carter.” After some friends who attended the Argo premiere in Toronto described it to Taylor, he expressed concern “that we’re portrayed as innkeepers who are waiting to be saved by the CIA,” which is a pretty fair description of what the film depicts. "If asked, we were going to say we were leaving Iran to return when it was safer. The truth - which Argo artfully obscures - is that the cover story was never tested and in some ways proved irrelevant to the escape. "But the Agency had done its homework and knew the Iranian border authorities habitually made no attempt to reconcile documents. The most disputed aspect of the movie’s version of events has to do with Canada’s role in the escape. "I was asked to volunteer in October 1978 and things in Iran were already pretty bad," he explains. It was Taylor who cabled Washington to begin the escape plan in earnest, and once the plan was decided on, Canadians “scouted the airport, sent people in and out of Iran to establish random patterns and get copies of entry and exit visas, bought three sets of airline tickets,” and “even coached the six in sounding Canadian.”. The real Mendez had two sons and a daughter with his first wife, who died of cancer in 1986. I had brought a list of the houseguests in Tehran and their various ages and names. It was called Lord of Light, after the best-selling sci-fi novel by Roger Zelazny that it was based on. It was fun, which I knew would help the six “houseguests.” We were going to walk them out through Tehran airport and right onto a commercial plane. Geller, by the way, still hopes to get Lord of Light made some day, and producer-director Judd Ehrlich is trying to get a documentary about Science Fiction Land off the ground. “Each of you is going to need to make yourself look a little flashier, a little more Hollywood,” I said. The houseguests had been told by one of the Canadian diplomats that they should expect some visitors. Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. Drug manufacturer Gilead has questioned the findings, from a clinical study by the WHO. "I thought it had the right amount of pizzazz. If someone were to stop us, then it would be easy for us to overwhelm them with confusing conceptual jargon. The postscript text said that the CIA let Taylor take the credit for political purposes, w… Video, Portugal's radical decision to decriminalise all drugs. Taylor himself has a major part, and is presented as a sympathetic and brave man who took great personal risks to save the Americans. The couple couldn't have guessed how quickly they would find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. The first time we see Mendez in Argo he’s sleeping in a messy apartment all by himself; he and his wife are taking some time off, we soon learn, and it’s suggested that he’s lost some respect down at the Agency. Apparently, Michael Douglas had just finished producing The China Syndrome and we could have his offices on the Columbia Pictures lot. So began one of the more outlandish stories in American espionage. More of England put on top Tier 3 Covid alert, Israel to ease second lockdown after cases decline, Amina is a 'symbol of resilience for Afghanistan' VideoAmina is a 'symbol of resilience for Afghanistan', Trump and Biden face voters' questions. Copyright © 2012 by Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio, ARGO by Antonio J. Mendez and Matt Baglio. "But it is true we had little to do except read books and play Scrabble. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.

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