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Canadian Caper. Antonio Joseph Mendez (November 15, 1940 – January 19, 2019) was an American technical operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. He wrote four memoirs about his CIA experiences. Mendez was decorated, and is now widely known, for his on-the ...
Jan 20, 2019 · Tony Mendez was a specialist in disguises and forgeries at the CIA Ex-CIA agent Tony Mendez, who inspired the Oscar-winning film Argo, has died at the age of 78. He had been suffering from ...
Jan 21, 2019 · It was a blind ad in a newspaper that caught Tony Mendez’s eye in 1965. The ad (“Artists to Work Overseas — U.S. Navy Civilians”) did not identify the employer, but it carried the whiff of ...
Aug 21, 2021 · Tony Mendez on the set of “Late Show With David Letterman” in 1998. He flipped cue cards for Mr. Letterman for 21 years and was frequently seen in onscreen exchanges with his boss.
Nov 7, 2000 · Tony Mendez is a retired CIA officer who worked undercover for 25 years, participating in some of the most important operations of the Cold War. He earned the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit and was chosen as one of 50 officers to be awarded the Trailblazer Medallion.
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Jan 21, 2019 · Tony Mendez, the real-life spy behind Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film "Argo," has died at the age of 78. Mendez died early Saturday morning, succumbing to a decade-long battle with Parkinson's ...
Jan 20, 2019 · Tony Mendez, the former CIA officer who rescued six American diplomats from revolutionary Iran in 1980, died Saturday. He's shown here in 2012 in Washington, D.C., at the premiere of Argo, a film ...
