“I have to thank the Iranians for being the beacon who got us to the right place,” Mr. Johnson said in his oral history. In the “Argo” movie, Mr. Affleck, portraying Mr. Mendez, is shown ...

Edward B Johnson, who has died aged ... from Iran under the guise of a B-movie production, an operation later dramatised in the Oscar-winning film Argo (2012). The six diplomats had escaped ...

s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards: His Iran hostage drama “Argo” won best film ... s “Wreck-It Ralph” won best animated film. Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller “Looper” was named ...

The caper inspired the movie “Argo.” By Sam Roberts Edward B. Johnson, who as an anonymous C.I.A. officer in 1980 helped rescue six American diplomats during the Iran hostage crisis by casting ...