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David McCloskey

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Maybe not exactly who is missing yet, but that there are missing Americans and they might have photographs of these people.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And so you want to modify your appearance slightly.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

They also send, you know, for example, I mean, if they're a film crew.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Well, you would need cameras, right?

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

So, they send prop kits, cinematographer's viewfinder, a schedule of the phony film shoot because Argo is commencing principal photography in March of 1980.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

And so, there's going to be a schedule for how the film would be made.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Studio six business cards, a copy of the screenplay, the Jack Kirby concept art, those sketches.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

You also need plane tickets, right?

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Mendez wants to do this on Swissair.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

There's a Tehran to Zurich flight.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

It's exactly the route that he used to exfiltrate Raptor early in the year.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Switzerland, obviously a neutral country.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

The Swissair desk at Maribat International Airport historically had light scrutiny.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

This is one of the other things that I think Mendez talks about.

The Rest Is Classified
161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

pretty extensively in his book that you don't see in the film is the CIA and potentially the Canadians having sent in kind of people who had a legitimate reason to go in and out of

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

How it works.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Sort of how it works.

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

What documents do you need?

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

How are they checked?

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161. Argo: Six Fugitives in Revolutionary Tehran (Ep 2)

Yeah, really important.