In True Face with Jonna Hiestand Mendez and Liza Mundy

Her life reads like a spy novel...literally. Spy Museum board member and former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Hiestand Mendez is finally sharing her personal story of what it was really like to be a female spy at the height of the Cold War. Her new memoir, "In True Face, A Woman's Life in the CIA, UnMasked" 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.
Join us for a conversation with Mendez led by bestselling author Liza Mundy. Mundy is uniquely positioned to interview Mendez, who she featured in her latest book, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA. They’ll discuss Mendez’s incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it. How did a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, discover her own talent for espionage? How did she rise in a world where she was often underestimated and occasionally undermined? Mendez will share tales of her life undercover, and how she climbed to the pinnacle of disguise work in the CIA’s Office of Technical Service.
Don’t miss this inside story from a woman who has witnessed history from the shadows and knows just how much light to shed on her covert past.
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[@lizmatthei3424]

Jonna needs her own Hollywood blockbuster movie.

[@nerdlabstudios7023]

Yes I thought the same, why is there not a movie about her & her life? Would be awesome they need to approach her for a film.

[@kateg7298]

Netflix needs to do a series about Jonna Mendez. They already have a great name in Moscow Rules. Jonna is one of the most intelligent, capable, engaging and accomplished women in the world.

[@karenkingrey6142]

Jonna Mendez! She is so wonderful to listen to!

[@windbreaker57]

Thanks for this.

[@IronicleseAndSardoniclese]

What an interesting life! I imagine that this could’ve been me in an alternate universe…. Back when I was a thin young thang!😂😂😂

[@MKA-bk9iv]

Always good if Mandy introduced

[@randomdude7384]

"Attitude is everything."

[@randomdude7384]

Is that Bill Burns in the first row?

[@56Spookdog]

A question I’d ask besides why do people always use Bill for a story, have you ever used a disguise or disguise techniques in everyday life outside of the CIA?

[@ananths8828]

Subcontinent is India

[@marihill230]

Not necessarily

[@ananths8828]

@@marihill230 you are wrong.

[@bgreen7286]

So what happened to her first husband?

[@randomdude7384]

An amicable divorce after it'd run its course. That's what I got from the Washington Post article.