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Bookmark or Share- Tony Mendez, 'Argo' spy who smuggled U.S hostages out of Iran during ...Disguising himself as an Irish filmmaker, Mendez successfully smuggled six State Department employees out of Tehran during the 1979-1981 Iran hostage crisis, passing them off as a Canadian movie...
- Tony Mendez - WikipediaAntonio 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.
- Tony Mendez, 78, Dies; C.I.A. Officer Celebrated in the Film ‘Argo’Mr. Mendez orchestrated one of the most audacious covert operations in the agency’s history: the rescue of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980.
- The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA: Mendez, Antonio J ...In the first ever memoir by a top-level operative to be authorized by the CIA, Antonio J. Mendez reveals the cunning tricks and insights that helped save hundreds from deadly situations.
- Tony Mendez: The CIA’s Master of Disguises - POLITICOAlmost no one outside the spy service had ever heard of Tony Mendez, but I’d been told that he had run one of the greatest capers in the history of the CIA. Tony and his wife, Jonna Hiestand...
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