1028: Jonna Mendez | The Moscow Rules (Redux)

Ex-CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez reveals Cold War spy tactics, from high-tech masks to pop-up dummies, and risks faced by agents in Moscow! [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh pass through your earholes!]

• What was it like to work as a heavily surveilled CIA operative in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War?
• Why did the United States have to rebuild its embassy in Moscow from the ground up in the early ’90s?
• How aspiring artists like Jonna and her late husband Antonio (played by Ben Affleck in Argo) got involved in working for the CIA.
• How the CIA recruits brilliant scientific minds to develop cutting-edge solutions when it can only offer a fraction of compensation offered by the private sector.
• The evolution of how disguise has come to be used in the intelligence community since the ’70s, and the role Jonna has taken in its progress.
• And much more…

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