“I didn’t join the CIA thinking I’d drive over the Alps in a Jaguar like James Bond,” says Jonna Mendez (in 2023 and, opposite, disguised as a man in 2005). When Jonna Mendez, then the CIA’s chief of ...

Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise, answers the internet's burning questions about spying. How many CIA assets are in Ukraine right now? Do spies get acting lessons? How do spies get recruited ...

Tom Cruise has displayed a range of jaw-dropping disguise techniques in his 'Mission: Impossible' franchise. Jonna Mendez, 80, said the famous M:I "mask reveals" – where star Tom Cruise and sometimes ...

Washington County Public Schools student Aidyn Wood compared meeting Jonna Mendez on Thursday to a Minor League Baseball player getting to see and talk with his favorite MLB player. Aidyn, 17, of the ...

A former CIA officer claims Osama bin Laden fled Tora Bora dressed as a woman after an Al Qaeda translator stalled US forces. Plus: Ex-CIA reveals US purchased Musharraf.

The spy business is all about masking the truth. One CIA agent’s deceptions and sham identities were so enterprising that he earned the nickname “Master of Disguise.” The spy business is all about ...

With Halloween right around the corner, we thought it might be a good time to talk about our own love of costumes. Of course, we use another term that you might be familiar with: disguises. Both ...

After 27 years in the CIA working on operational assignments around the world, I am somewhat numbed to the fictional espionage that engulfs us — the books and movies and TV shows that always get it ...

A lot of people who work at the CIA say it's nothing like the movies — no skulduggery, sneaking around or disguises. But not Jonna Mendez — she actually did all that cool spy stuff and for many years, ...

Trailblazer Jonna Mendez revolutionized the CIA’s techniques — and now she’s finally sharing her own story Nancy Pastor/The Washington Times; Tina Leu “I didn’t join the CIA thinking I’d drive over ...