CIA's Jonna Mendez, Mistress of Disguise

In a new book, Mendez recalls an extraordinary career and tricks of the trade

THERE HAVE BEEN FEW GUESTS on the SpyTalk podcast as entertaining as Jonna Mendez, who rose from secretary to clandestine photography whiz to head of CIA Disguise. In the mid-1980s, moreover, Jonna was handed one of the spy agency’s toughest missions. Assigned to so-called Denied Area Operations, her job was to craft persusive disguises for CIA street o…