I
enjoyed going to the cinema last Saturday night to see a film called
ARGO. This Oscar nominated film tells the based-on-true-life tale of
how CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) extracted six American diplomats
from the Canadian Embassy in Tehran. Mendez’s plan to get them out is
to create cover identities for the diplomats as a film crew for an
in-production science fiction film.
There
are a myriads of problems with this plan, not the least of which is
that it depends on putting a fake science fiction film into production
in order to fool the Iranian security forces who are scouring the
capital to capture the stray Americans. The film gets it biggest laugh
from the discomfort this plan raises in the Washington bureaucrats and
the open-minded embrace from Mendez’s two Hollywood partners.
Once
inside the meeting with Vice President, the politician is skeptical and
openly wonders if they don’t have better a better, to which Mendez
replies, “This is the best bad plan we’ve got.”
It got me thinking about COLPs (sad but true). Even if you have a poor Compliance Plan............a bad plan is better than none at all.
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