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Tony Mendez
Antonio Joseph Mendez is a US Technical Operations Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, specializing in assisting with covert and covert CIA operations. He wrote three memoirs about his CIA experience. Mendez was decorated, and is now widely known, thanks to the "Caper Canada" field leadership during the hostage crisis in Iran. He deceived six American diplomats from Iran in January 1980 by making them play a Canadian film crew. As part of the blanket, diplomats carry passports issued by the Canadian government to prove that they are Canadian citizens. After declassifying the case, full details of the activity were reported in a 2007 article by Joshuah Bearman in Wired magazine. This has been loosely adjusted for the script and development of the 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred in Mendez.
Birth nameAntonio Joseph Mendez
BornNovember 15, 1940, Eureka, Nevada, U.S.
DiedJanuary 19, 2019, Frederick, Maryland, U.S.
AllegianceUnited States
Service/branchCentral Intelligence Agency
Years of service1963–1990
RankSIS-2
UnitGraphics and Authentication Division
Battles/warsIran hostage crisis, Cold War
Spouse(s)Karen Mendez (died 1986)

About Tony Mendez

Other Tony Mendez was born in Eureka, Nevada, United States on November 15, 1940. He dies at the age of 78, on January 19, 2019.

He is well known for his work with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, where he was instrumental in the"Canadian Caper" hostage rescue operation during the Iran Hostage Crisis. After leaving the CIA, he wrote several memoirs and nonfiction books, including Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA (1999).

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Tony Mendez before becoming famous

Tony Mendez was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1940 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He was born in Eureka, Nevada, and attended high school in Colorado. He worked as an illustrator and graphic designer after graduating from the University of Colorado before being hired as an artist by the CIA's Technical Services Division.

Achievement of Tony Mendez

In 1980, he received the CIA's prestigious Intelligence Star.

Tony Mendez's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His marriage to Karen Mendez resulted in three children, including artist Antonio Tobias Mendez. Mendez married fellow CIA agent Jonna Goeser after the death of his first wife, with whom he had a son.

Tony Mendez Collabed with

Movie Actor Ben Affleck plays Mendez in the critically acclaimed 2012 movie Argo.

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Latest information about Tony Mendez updated on March 19 2023.