In reality, the mission had always been a go ever since American President Jimmy Carter gave his approval prior to Tony taking his flight into Tehran, Iran. The real Tony Mendez woke up forty-five minutes late the morning he was to meet up with the six Americans at the airport.
He had slept through his watch alarm and was woken up when his ride to the airport had arrived and called his hotel room. He rushed to get ready and made it downstairs 15 minutes later. The suspenseful Argo movie scene that requires Ben Affleck's character to ask the woman at the airport ticket counter to recheck for the tickets never actually happened in real life. The reservations had always been in place and there weren't any problems at the counter or the checkpoints.
Tony had arrived ahead of them to make sure that he cleared customs and could check in at the airline counter without any trouble. When the problem was resolved they took the airport bus out to where they boarded the plane and it lifted off for Zurich, Switzerland. They were not chased down the runway by the officers and Revolutionary Guard at the airport. However, they did in fact breathe a collective sigh of relief once they cleared Iranian airspace.
To celebrate their escape, they toasted with Bloody Marys. There was a moment when someone at a counter did walk away with papers that belonged to a member of the group like in the movie, but the employee only stepped away to get a cup of tea and returned shortly. There was no need to further present a letter from the Ministry of Culture like in the movie.
The man who returned with it asked him if it was indeed him in the photo, since his expression was different and his mustache was longer in the passport photo. Lee said it was and the man believed him and let him through. As stated above, our research into the true story revealed that Tony Mendez and the six Americans were not detained at the airport.
They were not sequestered like in the movie. There was therefore no nearly missed nail-biting phone call to Studio Six Productions to verify their backgrounds. Tony also never gave Iranian officers storyboard sketches to keep as souvenirs. Although it is not shown in the film likely to avoid confusion and to sustain believability , the actual Swissair plane that the Americans flew out on had the name "Argau" lettered on its nose.
The Swissair plane had been given the name Argau after a region in Switzerland. Noticing the name on the nose as the group walked up the ramp to board the plane, Bob Anders punched Tony Mendez in the arm and said, "You arranged for everything, didn't you?
Studio Six Productions closed its doors several weeks after Tony Mendez and his team helped the six Americans escape from Iran, however, not without grabbing Hollywood's attention.
The CIA's fake movie production company created such a convincing cover that it had received 26 scripts, including one from Steven Spielberg. The story of the CIA's involvement in helping the six Americans to escape Iran on January 28, was declassified and revealed to the public as part of the Agency's 50th Anniversary celebrations in Tony continued to work for the CIA, eventually retiring in after 25 years of service.
He spends much of his time painting in his art studios on his forty acre farm in rural Washington County, Maryland. In addition to various locations in California Warner Bros.
Studios, etc. See video of the real people behind the Argo movie. What's most interesting is that they were then still required to lie about the CIA's involvement in their escape. Tony talks about going to the Oscars and reflects on the Argo true story. This news piece chronicles the events of the day the Americans were released, Inauguration Day, January 20, It describes President Jimmy Carter's last ditch efforts to get the hostages released before President Ronald Reagan took his oath of office.
Editions Quartz. More from Quartz About Quartz. Follow Quartz. These are some of our most ambitious editorial projects. By Adam Epstein Entertainment reporter. In the final scenes of the " nail-biting political thriller " Argo -- the true story of how the CIA safely whisked six U.
Embassy staffers out of Iran during the hostage crisis -- a group of Americans disguised as a film crew safely survives three passport checks, the canceling and uncanceling of plane tickets, and a runway car chase by the Revolutionary Guard. But according to the insider account published in by the CIA's in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence , the actual exit was much less dramatic. The Iranian customs official stamping passports at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport "could not have cared less" when he stamped the fake passports and exit visas of "six Canadians, a European, and a Latin American" as they snuck out of the country and onto Swissair Flight SR Mendez and his team began by looking for "black" smuggling routes out of Iran, even studying billionaire Ross Perot's successful exfiltration of two of his employees from Iran the year before.
But Mendez concluded that "using paramilitary means" to rescue the hostages "seemed impossible. But Langley was not immediately sold on the "film production" cover; initially it tossed around disguises such as "food economists" or "unemployed school teachers. The Canadians agreed to provide six passports for the embassy staff for "humanitarian purposes" but refused to allow the two CIA escorts Canadian documentation.
They did, however, smuggle the CIA's documents and disguises to Tehran in a diplomatic pouch "the size of a pillowcase. Embassy staffers out of Iran during the hostage crisis — a group of Americans disguised as a film crew safely survives three passport checks, the canceling and uncanceling of plane tickets, and a runway car chase by the Revolutionary Guard.
Picking a script was a bit tricky. Something about the glory of Islam would be nice, too. They drew up some logos and posters and bought full-page ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter.
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