The situation was dire. Unbearably tense. Three months after the late-1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by Iranian revolutionaries, six American diplomats who had secretly escaped the compound were attempting to flee the country.
Through the capital city’s airport.
Disguised as a flashy, oblivious Hollywood film crew.
Led by an undercover Central Intelligence Agency officer.
... As he watched a dramatic re-creation of that moment during a recent screening of the new film “Argo,” he felt the uneasiness all over again.
“Oh, absolutely, it brought back the emotions,” said Tony Mendez, a retired disguise specialist in the CIA’s office of technical service (seen in the below photo). “I went to screenings in [Los Angeles] and Toronto, and it was just like being there again. Both times.
“There’s nothing so final as ‘Wheels up.’ [On missions], we always were waiting for that wheels-up feeling before we broke out the Bloody Marys.”
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