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Antonio Mendez

Biography

Antonio Mendez

Antonio (Tony) Mendez served in the CIA for 25 years and is a highly decorated CIA officer, one of the top 50 officers in its first 50 years. He received the Intelligence Star for Valor for the ARGO operation, the story of which was told in the 2013 movie of the same name. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling ARGO, THE MASTER OF DISGUISE and SPY DUST.

Antonio Mendez

Books by Antonio Mendez

by Antonio Mendez and Jonna Mendez, with Matt Baglio - History, Nonfiction, True Crime

Antonio Mendez and his future wife, Jonna, were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late 1970s, at one of the most dangerous moments in the Cold War. Soviets kept files on all foreigners, studied their patterns and tapped their phones. Intelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. THE MOSCOW RULES tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. As experts in disguise, Antonio and Jonna were instrumental in developing a series of tactics --- Hollywood-inspired identity swaps, ingenious evasion techniques and an armory of James Bond-style gadgets --- that allowed CIA officers to outmaneuver the KGB.