Mendez was born in Campbellsville, Kentucky to a family whose roots in the county were six generations deep. With the use of the art of magic, illusion and misdirection many enemies have been defeated without taking the field of battle. He twinkled, he sparkled.”To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following:Soviet military intelligence colonel Oleg Penkovsky (centre) was sentenced to death during his public trial on May 11, 1963 in Moscow.

Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. "We have people who have chemistry backgrounds, who evaluate materials for us, who actually invent materials for us," she told Morell. It marked an important time for how the relationship would work between CIA intelligence officers and their Russian counterparts, Mendez says.“That was the beginning of a long period of time when we did not meet face to face with our Russian [spies].“We could not meet with them face to face, it was too dangerous, or they too would be arrested and executed … I mean, how do you run an operation when you can't look the other person who's risking his life for you and your country?
... Jonna Mendez: Master of disguise.

They were running from Interpol. "One of them, she said, included handling so-called "walk-ins" — potential but untested agents who enter an embassy to volunteer information. They had real meaning. But the terrorist said I have information about a group that’s getting ready to bring down another American plane. I said, I'm wearing it.“So I did what I call the Tom Cruise peel, although I didn't realise that Tom Cruise was going to be doing this in the future.

It gave him a chance to decide whether to approach this guy or not. ""Now, I know that CIA has 50,000 applicants a year," she continued. But it was just a kind of a grainy “These [Moscow] rules were real.

Intelligence officers can often take the first meeting.

Mendez also discussed her marriage to Tony Mendez, a celebrated former CIA officer and master of disguise who was famously portrayed in the Oscar-winning film … A potentially fatal mistake that could have cost her life, she later found out.It may sound like something straight out of a spy fiction movie, but that’s the reality Mendez lived as the former CIA chief of disguise who worked alongside her husband for the intelligence agency. A view of the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor to the KGB, in downtown Moscow on November 16, 2018 It was difficult.”It could be considered one of the ‘Moscow Rules’ that the Mendez authors wrote about in their book – common sense unspoken rules that you’d know about after being trained by the CIA to work in Moscow.“These were the ground rules for how you operate inside of that surveillance bubble that is waiting for you,” Mendez says.“A bubble that is in your apartment, at your home, they're listening, and they're listening live. They're everywhere.”Former Soviet military intelligence colonel Oleg Penkovsky, codenamed HERO, attempted to volunteer for the CIA several times – almost getting arrested in the process – before he was taken up for his offer.“He had access to information at all levels within the Soviet hierarchy.“As a matter of fact, later on a book was written about him, called He was later compromised when he was caught and ended up dead. Because if you look at it with infrared, it looks like a glowing snow cone on your head," she explained. Everybody, it turns out, was after them.”The man was arrested by local authorities the next day, she says.The highlight of Mendez’s intelligence career came when she was working in Moscow with what they called “Russian assets” – spies who aided them to gather intelligence.Amid desperation with the KGB following their every move, Mendez says the CIA had to come up with some “ingenious solutions” to avoid detection and risking the lives of the Russian spies.“Sometimes people don't understand, they hear chief of disguise and they read the stories of some of the almost outrageous things that we did in order to get our work done,” she says.“But the fact that is working in Moscow back during the Cold War, and I would submit even today, it's one of the most difficult places in the world if you are an intelligence officer, because you're smothered in this very unfriendly embrace of the KGB, you can't turn around without bumping into them.“You can't take a step without stepping on their toes. "Mendez also discussed her marriage to Tony Mendez, a celebrated former CIA officer and master of disguise who was They had just finished working together on a new book, "The Moscow Rules," about their time spying in Russia during the Cold War when Tony passed away last January.
He was promoted to … Jonna Mendez, a former CIA employee who once held the job title of "chief of disguise," has shared some secrets about how a real spy would change their appearance. But you can hand someone else just a cane and a book, and they can become an entirely different person, they inhabit this idea.“Well, this chief of station was one of those guys. She'll show us some of her best-kept disguise secrets too. The Master of Disguise, site of Tony and Jonna Mendez, former CIA Intelligence Officers with 52 years of combined service. I didn't mean to do that. We're with Jonna Mendez, also known as the "master of disguise," to discuss her 27 years of work at the CIA. [You] can't even look him in the eye.


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