Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)
5/27/20261 hr 6 min
Six Americans are hiding out as Canadian houseguests in Tehran. To get them out, the CIA will invent a Hollywood film studio that does not exist.
In this episode, David and Gordon examine how the CIA worked with Hollywood to plan a daring escape from revolutionary Iran during the hostage crisis.
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First 90 secondsDavid McCloskey· Host0:00
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Gordon Corera· Host0:17
[theme music] Six Americans are hiding out as Canadian house guests in Tehran. To get them out, the CIA will invent a Hollywood film studio that doesn't exist. Well, welcome to The Rest is Classified. I'm Gordon Corera.
David McCloskey· Host0:38
And I'm David McCloskey.
Gordon Corera· Host0:39
And we are in the midst of the aftermath of the Iranian revolution. The US Embassy has been taken over, hostages have been taken there, but six Americans have slipped out a side gate and have ended up sheltered inside the homes of two brave Canadian diplomats in Tehran. Uh, we left last time with Tony Mendez of the CIA's Office of Technical Service, uh, planning the idea of how he might be able to get them out from inside Iran. So David, I guess we're back to the story of the CIA and the Canadians, just to remind people, uh- [laughs] ... rescuing these six diplomats.
David McCloskey· Host1:23
This, this is gonna go on for the entirety of the series- Oh, yes ... isn't it?
Gordon Corera· Host1:27
It is, yeah.
David McCloskey· Host1:28
He won't relent. He won't relent.