ARGO CIA rescue fact

    by Capucine · old hollywood: Steven Spielberg

    The CIA's fake Hollywood production company, built to aid a rescue operation, stayed convincing enough to keep receiving unsolicited scripts long after the mission wrapped. Even Steven Spielberg reportedly sent a script to that fabricated entity. Fourteen years have passed since ARGO opened in theaters.

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    When things happen, Jack, I'm responsible. I'm taking him through. Tony. Alan. Alan. We need to confirm those seven tickets out of Turan on Swiss Air. And he shut that down. I say it's back on. I can't do it. It's backstopped. Wait, wait, wait. What the hell are you talking about, backstopped? What the hell does that mean? Carter's got to say yes for us to get the tickets. It's time to go. All right. Where's Engel? He's in a meeting. Pull him out. Pull him out! Thank you. Seher's on a bus. Seher will be fine. Thank you. You two leave right now. We'll be on a train in half an hour. Good. NE said no. This is not a long leisure, and it never has been. And you don't decide if it goes. Go, Al Smear. It is going. Jack, you are this close. Am I? Am I really that close? You are this goddamn close. I am not going to leave him at the airport with six people and his dick in his hand. You tell the director to call the White House. Do your fucking job.