The title says it all: How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran
That’s the best Wired article I’ve read in ages.
It’s hard to believe that my all-time favorite Wired article is already over ten years old: Mother Earth Mother Board
It’s by Neal Stephenson, who’s one of my favorite authors (even though I can’t get through his post-Cryptonomicon works). His other articles for Wired are great, too: LINK
Mother Earth, Mother Board is my favorite Wired article too! I’ve reformatted it in a Word file and edited it slightly because it’s so long and I prefer to read it on paper.
> I’ve reformatted it in a Word file and edited it slightly
That’s so funny – I did the exact same thing many years ago. I carried that printout around so long, it became coffee-stained and dog-eared and was eventually ground down into fairy dust, I believe.