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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Armed with foreign film visas, Mendez and an unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders traveled to Tehran....

Antonio Mendez and his future wife, Jonna, were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns, tapped their phones, and even planted listening devices within the US embassy. In short, intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. 

Cajón de sastre para comentar la actualidad desde sus más diversos ámbitos: político, cultural, deportivo, jurídico, etc. Hablaremos de cualquier cosa que se tercie..., menos de economía. Y eso que la economía es importante, pero es que de ese tema no tengo ni la más remota idea. Eso sí, como descargo, habrá entrevistas con personajes que no son tan conocidos para el público en general, pero que tienen cosas interesantes que aportar.