The Cia'a Quondam Principal Of Disguise On How To Disappear Into The Crowd

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Making Spies Disappear

For years, Jonna Mendez was undercover every bit a purpose of the CIA's Office of Technical Service. She after became the Chief of Disguise for the CIA. Here's a YouTube video of her talking nearly how spies utilisation disguise.

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Former CIA Chief Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED

 Published on Oct 22, 2018

Former Chief of Disguise for the CIA, Jonna Mendez, explains how disguises are used inward the CIA, together with what aspects to the deception brand for an effective disguise. 

Here's her mini-bio at the Spy Museum:

Jonna Mendez

Jonna Mendez is a onetime Central Intelligence Agency Chief of Disguise.

H5N1 onetime Chief of Disguise inward the CIA’s Office of Technical Service, Ms. Mendez is every bit good a specialist inward cloak-and-dagger photography using subminiature cameras. Her 27- twelvemonth career, for which she earned CIA’s Intelligence commendation Medal, included operational disguise together with photograph responsibilities inward the most hostile theaters of the Cold War, from Havana to Moscow to Beijing together with ultimately into the Oval Office. She is currently a fine arts photographer, author, lecturer together with consultant on word matters. She worked amongst her married adult man inward writing Spy Dust: H5N1 True Story of Espionage together with Romance, together with the mass ARGO. They are currently writing Moscow Rules, to locomote published inward tumble of 2018.

Presentation Topics

UNDERCOVER BOSS
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