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In september 2002 he published his second book with his wife jonna. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In addition to writing the master of disguise, mendez and his wife jonna completed another book entitled spy dust chronicling their intelligence exploits in moscow during the last years of the cold war and their budding romance which ended in marriage after mendez retired in 1990. The master of disguise audio, cassette abridged, audiobook.
These books are highly recommended reading for new recruits in the us intelligence community, and are part of the curriculum at universities and in the intelligence community. Working as a chief of disguise, mendez and his workers helped secret agents remain secret through disguises and false documents, according to his book the master of disguise. Argo the master of disguise by antonio mendez, length. Read the master of disguise my secret life in the cia by antonio j mendez available from rakuten kobo. The master of disguise by antonio mendez this script is the confidential and proprietary property of warner bros. This book was a fascinating look behind the scenes of the cia in the 60s through 80s, a world of dead drops, micro dots.
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Antonio joseph mendez november 15, 1940 january 19, 2019 was an american technical. Review of master of disguise, studies in intelligence v. My secret life in the cia by antonio j mendez online at alibris. The books author and excia agent, antonio mendez, also wrote argo, which wasis, imho, just a. Based on a wired magazine article by joshuah bearman, as well as mendezs own book the master of disguise, argo marks terrios first appearance as an academy award nominee. Entering into the secret service because of his artistic ability, tony mendez became a copier of documents first, then expanded his horizons into disguise to help with surveillance and countersurveillance. Mendez reveals the cunning tricks and insights that helped save hundreds from deadly situations. His most recent book is argo, which tells the story of the operation he ran to rescue six americans hiding in the canadian embassy in tehran during the hostage crisis.
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The film scored seven oscar noms and won three including the marquee best picture and for chris terrios script, which was adopted partly from mendez s book the master of disguise. Therefore we have a mystery here and the three main explanations are as. She was assigned to denied area operations for disguise in 1986. In the first ever memoir by a toplevel operative to be authorized by the cia, antonio j. Mendez gives an interesting behindthescenes look at what it is like to work for the cia.
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