ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Tony Mendez
Tony Worked for the CIA for 25 years. He was awarded the Intelligence Star in 1980, CIA Trailblazer Award in 1997, and Order of the Sphinx in 2000. He started out as an artist and answered an advertisement and need up as espionage artist in the Technical Services Division. Mendez worked forging documents, making disguises, and handling other espionage related work. He has written three non-fiction novels:
Tony Worked for the CIA for 25 years. He was awarded the Intelligence Star in 1980, CIA Trailblazer Award in 1997, and Order of the Sphinx in 2000. He started out as an artist and answered an advertisement and need up as espionage artist in the Technical Services Division. Mendez worked forging documents, making disguises, and handling other espionage related work. He has written three non-fiction novels:
- Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA (1999), memoir of his CIA experiences.
- Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War (2003), with Jonna Mendez and Bruce Henderson
- Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (2012), with Matt Baglio, a more lengthy account of the Canadian Caper.
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Matt Baglio
Matt has written the Rite, a bestselling book that has been translated in eighteen languages. He was raised in Southern California, but splits his time between Italy and America. He has worked as an editor and contributor for a variety of magazines. Matt co-wrote Argo: how the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History.