Tony Mendez, the former CIA technical operations officer who orchestrated the 1980 rescue of six American diplomats from Iran and who was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the Academy Award winning film “Argo,” has died.
He was 78.Mendez’s book agent, Christy Fletcher, announced the news on Twitter Saturday morning.“Early this morning, Antonio (Tony) J.
Mendez finally succumbed to the Parkinson’s Disease that he had been diagnosed with ten+ years ago,” the statement reads.
“He was surrounded with love from his family and will be sorely missed.
The last thing he and his wife Jonna Mendez did was get their new book to the publisher and he died feeling he had completd writing the stories that he wanted to be told.”The message states Mendez will be buried in a private ceremony at the family graveyard in Nevada.Born on Nov.
15 1940, Mendez began his career as an artist after studying
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