Master of disguise antonio mendez pdf Continue American CIA technical operations officer and writer for other purposes, see Antonio Mendes (disambiguation) and Tony Mendes. Tony Mendes Mendes (left) with Jimmy Carter after Canadian CaperBirth nameAntonio Joseph MendezBorn (1940-11-15)November 15, 1940Eureka, Nevada, USA DiedJanuary 19, 2019 (2019-01-19) (age 78)Frederick, Maryland, U.S.AllegianceUnited StatesService/branchCentral Intelligence AgencyYears of service1963-1990RankSIS-2UnitGraphics and Authentication DivisionBattles/warsIran hostage crisis, Cold WarAwardsIntelligence Star (1980)CIA Trailblazer Award (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Order of Sphinx (1997) Wife (s) Karen Mendes (died 1986) Jonna Mendes (m. 1991) Antonio Joseph Mendes (November 15, 1940 - January 19, 2019) was an American technical officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who specialized in supporting covert and covert CIA operations. He wrote three memoirs about his CIA experience. Mendes was awarded, and is now widely known, for his on-stage management of the Canadian capers during the hostage crisis in Iran. In January 1980, he expelled six American diplomats from Iran, agreeing to turn them over as a Canadian film crew. As part of their cover, diplomats carry passports issued by the Canadian Government to document them as Canadian citizens. After declassifying the records, the full details of the operation were reported in 2007 in an article by Joshua Beardman in Wired magazine. It was poorly adapted for the 2012 film Argo, directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred as Mendes. Mendes took part in the 70th Golden Globe to give a speech about the film, where he was nominated for (and then won) Best Picture - Drama. Mendez was born in Eureka, Nevada, in 1940 at the age of John George Mendes (1917-1943) and Neve June Tognony (1919-1995). He attended local public schools. His father was of Mexican descent and his mother was of Italian, French and Irish descent. In an interview with Open Your Eyes magazine, Mendes said that his father died when he was very young. Because he never learned to speak Spanish and was cut off from his father's Mexican-American culture, he did not identify himself as Hispanic. When Mendes was a teenager, his family moved to Colorado. After graduating from Englewood High School, he studied art at the University of Colorado. Mendes' career continued to work as an artist after college. He first worked as an illustrator and instrument designer for martin Marietta, a major aerospace firm. In 1965, Mendes responded to a blind advertisement for a graphic artist. He was hired by the CIA and became a spy artist in the Technical Services Division, where he specialized in forging identity documents and creating He worked as an officer in the Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, and served in the CIA for 25 years. In 1980, in the so-famous Canadian Caber, Mendes traveled to Iran to rescue six American diplomats who had taken refuge in the Canadian Embassy after the United States Embassy was seized in a government shutdown. Mendes was part of a strategy to expel diplomats, pass them off as a Canadian film crew, obtaining passports and supporting documents from the Canadian government to identify them as such. On March 12, 1980, he was awarded the Intelligence Star for his efforts to organize a rescue operation. The marriage and family of Mendes and his first wife Karen had three children. Karen Mendes died of cancer in 1986. Their son Ian died in 2010. Their son Antonio Tobias Mendes became a sculptor. In the mid-1980s, Mendes worked with Jonna Histand Geser, also a CIA officer, to restore American security in the Soviet Union and then to Russia. After Mendes retired in 1990, they married in 1991. They had a son. Years after leaving the CIA in 1990, Mendes and his wife, Jonna, a 27-year-old CIA veteran, are on the board of directors of the International Museum of Spies in Washington, D.C. He also worked as an artist. Mendes wrote four non-fiction memoirs, two of which were his wife, including: Master of Disguise: My Secret Life at the CIA (1999), with Malcolm McConnell, a memoir about his CIA experience, spy dust: two masters of camouflage reveal the tools and operations that helped win the Cold War (2003), with Jonna Mendes and Bruce Henderson. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most daring rescue in history (2012), with Matt Baglio, a longer account of Canadian Caper. Moscow Rules: The CIA's secret tactic that helped America win the Cold War (2019), with Jonna Mendes. His first book was highly praised in 2002 by John Hollister Headley, the former chairman of the CIA's Publishing Review Board, as one of three significant memoirs by former CIA employees. Mendes interviewed director Errol Morris for First Person series. He appeared in the first episode of season 11, Little Grey Man. Mendes was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2009. He died on January 19, 2019 from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 78. Representation in other media In the first decade of the 21st century, records related to Canadian capers were declassified. Journalist Joshua Beardman wrote about it in the April issue of Wired magazine in April 2007. Beardman's account was poorly adapted for the screenplay and development of the feature film Argo (2012). The film was directed by Ben Affleck, who also starred as Mendes. The film won an Academy Award for Picture. During an interview in 2013 ShowBizCafe.com, Mendes was asked how he felt about being portrayed by Ben Affleck, who is not Hispanic. Mendes noted that the loss of his father when he was young meant that he did not learn Spanish nor much of his father's culture. 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