344: Jonna Mendez | The Moscow Rules

344: Jonna Mendez | The Moscow Rules

Jonna Mendez is a former chief of disguise in the CIA's Office of Technical Service, and co-author of The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War.

What We Discuss with Jonna Mendez:
  • 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...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/344

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