David McCloskey

Now, Mendez is going to use an alias of Kevin Costa Harkins.

who is allegedly the Studio 6 production manager in charge of Argo.

It is an alias that he has used before.

He's already got these documents.

He's got the sort of identity of Kevin Costa Harkins, although now he'll be a production manager working on Argo.

Harkins, the alias, has an apartment off Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.

Lovely.

Mendes doesn't say, but I think, I'm reading between the lines a little bit here, but I think in reading the memoir, I think it's an Irish identity.

That is my guess.

A little disguise.

Yeah.

Green turtleneck, tweed blazer, clothing he'll wear throughout the operation.

He's got the Argo portfolio, the screenplay that sketches with him in case any Iranian consular officer pushes back.

The clerk, when he's getting the visa, asks, you know, why are you

doing this in Germany rather than at home, but Mendez basically says that, oh, my idiot boss sent this telex about a meeting in Tehran.

I'm already on the road.

And 20 minutes later, he's got a one-month Iranian visa stamped into the Kevin Costaharkin's passport.

And presumably, although we don't hear about it in the memoir, Ed Johnson, known as Julio, does the same thing to get a legal visa to go into Iran.

Now,

Mendez and Julio file a final flash cable for approval on the 23rd of January, 1980.