CIA Tweets Its Version of 'Argo' Rescue in Iran

Anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis came earlier this week.

ByABC News
November 7, 2014, 3:23 PM
Clockwise from left: Scoot McNairy as Joe Stafford, Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz, Chris Denham as Mark Lijek, and Tate Donovan as Bob Anders in the film "Argo."
Clockwise from left: Scoot McNairy as Joe Stafford, Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, Rory Cochrane as Lee Schatz, Chris Denham as Mark Lijek, and Tate Donovan as Bob Anders in the film "Argo."
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— -- The CIA used the 35th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis to dispel some of the dramatic license in the Academy Award-winning film "Argo," which told the story of the rescue of Americans who eluded capture but were stuck in Iran.

The 2012 movie, directed by Ben Affleck, centered around the mission to get six Americans who had hidden in the Canadian embassy out of Iran by using a ruse of a fake film crew.

The anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis came earlier this week since the crisis started on Nov. 4, 1981, but the Central Intelligence Agency's social media team waited until today to inundate their followers with some behind-the-scenes trivia.

PHOTO: Five of the six escapees went to the Canadian Embassy in Washington to thank the Canadians for their help in escaping from Iran, Feb. 5, 1980.
Five of the six escapees went to the Canadian Embassy in Washington to thank the Canadians for their help in escaping from Iran, Feb. 5, 1980. From left: Robert G. Anders, Cora Amburn Lijek, Tom Boehm, political counselor of the Canadian Embassy, Joseph D. Stafford, Mark Lijek and Kathleen F. Stafford.

"We love #Argo, @TheAcademy award winning film by @BenAffleck. Today we tell you what’s 'reel' vs. 'real,'" the CIA said through their official Twitter account.

They gave Affleck, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film, a second shout out before launching into the facts of the story.

Here is the secretive agency's side of the story:

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