while they hid, for weeks, from the deadly wrath of the revolutionary guards, a cia agent named tony mendezatched an insane rescue plan. he would fly them out of tehran, posing as a film crew, scouting locations for a "star wars" rip-off called "argo." >> you need a script. you need a producer. >> reporter: before he could convince the americans to play along, he needed hollywood to help sell the lie. >> teach somebody to be a director in a day? >> you can teach a rhesus monkey to be a director in a day. >> reporter: funny to think there are genuine laughs in a story like this. but one comes from the idea that spies and hollywood producers are hustlers of dafrnt striiffe stripe, right? >> it really is true. to have to make up all these yarns in order to get done what they want to get done. security of our country depended on hendless, you know, stories. and, so, it never would have worked if it weren't a true story because people would have thought, there's no way the cia would be working with hollywood. >> reporter: but it did work. and because dozens of hostages remained back at the embas

. >> también tenemos acá a tony méndez, es un policía que intentó un rescate de rehenes. >> piden aireés) y esto estará disponible en la edición semanal de la revista, regresamos a los estudios. >> farruco está feliz por su primera nominación con su primera nominación de su álbum, ahora veremos aquí a su nuevo álbum musical. >> acá está la segunda producción de farruko, se autodefine como el novato de la mayor acogida. >> llevo dos años en la música y me está conociendo y es un artista que nace diferente. >> fui natural. >> el disco incluye 12 temas y cuenta con varias nominaciones. >> hay un perreo con daddy yankee. >> pero también canta más de música urbana, también cantó con josé feliciano. >> mira, josé feliciano es un icono de la gran música, nunca pensé que me iba a presentar con una persona así, es una colaboración que la gente no se esperaba. >> no importa donde se encuentre, el cantante siempre saca tiempo para practicar su deporte favorito y es todo un experto. >> muy bien, oye farruko eres un bárbaro pero a mí no me das ni por los tobillos. >> ponte protección. >> papá. >> ♪

while they spent weeks hiding from the revolutionary guards, a cia agent named tony mendez hatched an plan. he would fly them out posing as a film crew. >> it's a fake movie. >> reporter: scouting locations for a "star wars" rip-off called "ar go." >> i think my story is the only thing between you and a gun to your head. >> reporter: but before he would convince the frightened americans to play along, he needed hollywood to help sell the lie. >> you can teach someone to be a director in a day? >> you can teach a rhesus monkey to be a director in a day. >> reporter: funny to think that there are genuine laughs in a story like this. but one comes from the idea that spies and hollywood producers are hustlers of a different stripe. right? >> it really is true. it never would have worked if it weren't a true story. because people have just thought there's no way the cia would be working with hollywood. >> reporter: but they did, and it worked. >> good evening. day 87 and finally, a sliver of really good news. >> reporter: and with the current tension with iran, the middle eastern embassies