# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-mendez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:36.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-mendez"
name: "Tony Mendez"
slug: "tony-mendez"
description: "Antonio Joseph Mendez was an American technical operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. He wrote four memoirs about his CIA experiences."
tagline: "American CIA technical operations officer and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antonio_Joseph_Mendez%2C_1980_(cropped).gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940"
deathDate: "2019-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Tony Mendez"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump