May 20, 2024 – Watch bestselling author Jonna Mendez tell her story of being a CIA spy and “contract wife” during the height of the Cold War before she became the CIA’s Chief of Disguise – and the challenges she and other women faced in working for the CIA. In conversation with Jim Falk.
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WorldNow with Jim Falk is hosted by the World Affairs Council of Connecticut and Global Santa Fe. This episode was pre-recorded.
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Jonna Mendez is a former Chief of Disguise with over twenty-five years of experience as a CIA officer working in Moscow and other sensitive areas. With her late husband Tony Mendez, she is the bestselling coauthor of Argo, The Moscow Rules, and Spy Dust. Purchase In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked here.
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Featuring:
Jonna Mendez,
Former Chief of Disguise at the Central Intelligence Agency, author of In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked
Jim Falk,
Host, WorldNow and President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth