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CIA agent Tony Mendez, hero of film “Argo,” dead at 78

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Former CIA agent Tony Mendez, who engineered a creative way to smuggle US hostages out of Iran in 1980 and was immortalized in the Hollywood film “Argo,” died of complications from Parkinson’s Disease, his family said. He was 78. Mendez, who will have a private burial in Nevada, died on Saturday, his literary agent Christy Fletcher said via Twitter, relaying a family statement. “The last thing he and his wife […]