Andrew Bolt, Making Up History, has a link to a story, CIA reveals what Argo got wrong. If you want evidence of just how rotten from the inside American security agencies have become, you really ought to look at this idiot list.
Here’s what the movie Argo got right. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 installed a totalitarian government that was evil from Day One, a government that has ruined the lives of the Iranian people. It is a regime that is now doing everything it can, with virtually open connivance of the Obama Administration, to develop nuclear weapons that, should it succeed, will destabilise the Middle East and put more than just Israel at supreme risk. Here is the first of the 19 bits that the movie “got wrong”:
When the US Embassy is overtaken the 6 US diplomats go right to the Canadian ambassador’s residence to live for the 3 months.
All of these “errors” are of the same order of magnitude. They spice the film up just a tad, creating a bit of tension since it is a movie. But as these things go, this is near-on documentary coverage of events that are now 35 years old. You’d have to be around 50 to remember any of it. And where will you see anything, anywhere to give you a genuine picture of the kind of society Iran has become? Here’s the trailer. You know they’re going to get away, the facts are pretty well accurate and the films stands out as an actually pro-American piece of filming which has been almost unheard of since the 1970s. And it is an amazing story.
There is a final 20th point in the list of “errors” which must have been inserted by someone who retains at least an element of the CIA of old, you know, the CIA when it was still trying to defend the West:
Real #Argo: All involved in the operation were innovative, brave, & creative. Thank you @BenAffleck for making a film that reflects this.
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