Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Ben Affleck's Argo movie, which he directed and starred in, is no longer entirely accurate as the CIA declassifies new information about the real mission. Released in 2012, Argo stars Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez and tells the true story of how the C.I.A. operative led the rescue of six American diplomats in Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis under the facade of filming a fake science-fiction film.
Now, the CIA has declassified new information about the real rescue mission that makes the Argo movie sightly inaccurate. On the CIA's podcast The Langley Files , the government agency revealed that they actually sent two officers into Tehran. They even released the identity of the second officer, Ed Johnson, a linguist who accompanied Mendez on the mission to rescue the American diplomats.
What The Argo Movie Gets Wrong Since Johnson's involvement in the rescue mission was just recently declassified, it's difficult to fault the Argo movie for not including him. In his 1999 memoir The Master of Disguise, on which the Argo movie is partially based, Mendez wrote about being accompanied by a second officer, although an alias, Julio, was used.
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