CIA agent Tony Mendez, hero of film ‘Argo’, dead at 78


  • Nation
  • Monday, 21 Jan 2019

NEVADA (Relaxnews): Former CIA agent Tony Mendez, who engineered a creative way to smuggle US hostages out of Iran in 1980 and was immortalised in the Hollywood film “Argo,” has died of complications from Parkinson’s Disease, his family says. He was 78.

Mendez, who will have a private burial in Nevada, died on Saturday (Jan 19), his literary agent Christy Fletcher said via Twitter, relaying a family statement.

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