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Jonna Hiestand Goeser met her future second husband, Tony Mendez, also a CIA officer, while assigned to Bangkok. Tony Mendez is widely known for overseeing the joint covert rescue mission "Canadian Caper" during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, a story that served as inspiration for the 2012 movie Argo directed by Ben Affleck. [8]
After retiring from the CIA in 1990, Mendez and his wife Jonna, herself a 27-year veteran of the CIA, [12] served on the board of directors of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. He also worked as an artist. [12] Mendez wrote four non-fiction memoirs, two with his wife including:
Agent Tony Mendez wrote: Although no one had written them down, they were the precepts we all understood for conducting operations in the most difficult of operating environments: the Soviet capital. By the time they got to Moscow, everyone knew these rules. They were dead simple and full of common sense. [1]
Tony Mendez tells the New York Post in a story published Sunday he lost his job after grabbing a co-worker by the shirt Oct. 9 behind the scenes at CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman."
Mendez has produced over twenty public monuments: his sculptures include Thurgood Marshall, [2] [3] Don Shula, Mohandas Gandhi, Major Taylor, [4] and part of the United States Navy Memorial. [5] In 2011, Mendez was nominated as one of the three finalists to complete the Bill Russell statue in the city of Boston at the City Hall Plaza. [6]
Tony said that a deputy responded and spent over 30 minutes gathering information from Mary and may have had enough evidence to arrest Gingles but did not arrest him. "We could have done more. …
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
The nine-year department veteran was one of 177 civilian and uniformed members of the force who were honored with raised ranks Friday, including 34 of whom turned in their batons for detective status.