Interview of Wednesday, 27 March 2024 of Jonna Mendez, Former CIA Chief of Disguise, on her latest book "In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked."
Interviewer is Linda Millis, former CIA, NSA, ODNI, who is currently Assistant Professor at Marymount University. She serves on AFIO's Board.
Host is AFIO President James Hughes, a former senior CIA Operations Officer and Former NSA Associate Deputy Director of Operations.
The interview runs 29 minutes and includes several Q&As.
More about Jonna Mendez and her books at these links:
https://www.themasterofdisguise.com/a...
https://www.jonnamendez.com/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/154...
BIOS: JONNA MENDEZ began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment.
Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy and ultimately to Chief of Disguise at CIA’s Office of Technical Service.
In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez’s high-stakes work—how this savvy operator parlayed her “everywoman” appeal into incredible subterfuge—but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world. This is the story of an incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it.
LINDA MILLIS currently serves as Assistant professor at Marymount University and former adjunct faculty member at George Mason University teaching graduate courses on intelligence analysis, counterterrorism, and weapons of mass destruction. Ms. Millis has more than three decades of experience in the government, non-profit, academic and private sectors, including service in senior executive positions at NSA, CIA, the ODNI, the White House, and a Presidential Commission on Intelligence Reform. She is nationally recognized for developing partnership programs and strategies that improve the defense, intelligence, national and homeland security communities. Ms. Millis earned a BA degree in Russian Studies from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
JAMES R. HUGHES currently serves as the 17th President of AFIO. His service began January 2015. He had a career of US Government service spanning 37 years in numerous foreign countries with a particular focus in the Middle East. He started in U.S. Military Intelligence in the late 1960s and then joined the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He served overseas as a Chief of Station several times, and at CIA Headquarters in a number of senior management positions, including as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, in the Directorate of Operations [today’s National Clandestine Service]. He was also named the Associate Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) at the National Security Agency, 1998-99. Following his retirement from the government in 2005, he joined EDS in Herndon, VA, as the Client Industry Executive for the U.S. Intelligence Community. After the HP acquisition of EDS, he continued to serve in a similar capacity until his retirement in 2012. His parents were missionaries in Turkey in the 1950s, where Jim spent his formative years. He is fluent in Arabic.
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