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The CIA exfiltration specialist who got the American diplomats sheltering in the Canadian embassy out of revolutionary Tehran in 1979 by inventing a fake science-fiction film production — the operation dramatised in *Argo*. John Kiriakou calls him "a giant in the history of the CIA", says the same of his wife, and rates the operation among the greatest the agency has ever carried out.
Tony Mendez was the CIA exfiltration specialist who removed the American diplomats sheltering in the Canadian embassy from Tehran after the 1979 revolution. John Kiriakou’s assessment of him is unqualified: “Tony Mendez is a giant in the history of the CIA. His wife is a giant in the history of the CIA, and this is one of the greatest operations that the CIA has ever carried out in its history.”[1]
The bicycles
Kiriakou confirms the film Argo’s depiction of the planning meeting, including the proposal it ridicules. The original idea was to give the trapped diplomats maps and bicycles and send them to the Turkish border — “a terrible idea, because as he pointed out it was wintertime, and nobody rides bicycles in the wintertime, especially when you’re going north into the mountains where it’s even colder and with more snow.”[1][2]
The fake film
Mendez’s own proposal — to manufacture a science-fiction production scouting locations in Iran in the middle of a revolution — Kiriakou concedes “sounds like a nutty idea too, but it actually worked.” The standard it met was comparative rather than absolute: he says it was once described to him as “the least likely to fail of all the crazy ideas.”[1][2]
What the meeting shows about the CIA
Kiriakou uses the scene to describe how such decisions are actually made. “These are the kinds of meetings where you can just say the craziest thing, and if people deem it to be even remotely possible, they’ll give it real consideration.”[2]
He attaches the standing rule that the Argo plan only barely satisfies: “usually the operations with the fewest moving parts are the ones that are most likely to succeed.”[3]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
