ARGO won the 2013 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Writing and Best Editing. The film details the rescue of 6 U.S. diplomats from Tehran in 1979. The CIA created a fake movie production based in Los Angeles and sent CIA agent Tony Mendez into Iran with fake scripts, storyboards and paperwork.
Here are some of the actual documents used in the rescue operation
that was run by the CIA under their “Studio 6 Productions”.
The fake introduction letter from Studio 6
The actual script for ARGO
Storyboard for the fake film ARGO
The real Tony Mendez passport
Spy Exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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