Jonna Mendez

Jonna Mendez
Birth name Jonna Goeser
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  Central Intelligence Agency

Jonna Mendez is an American CIA officer, now retired, who specialised in disguise. She has written a memoir about her CIA experiences.

Career

Before retirement, Jonna Mendez spent 27 years working for the CIA, rising to the position of Chief of Disguise[1].

Marriage and family

In the mid-1980s, Goeser worked with Tony Mendez, also a CIA officer, on rebuilding the US security organization in the Soviet Union and later Russia. Following Tony Mendez's retirement in 1990 they married. They had a son together.[2]

Later years

Since retiring from the CIA in 1990, Mendez and her husband, himself a veteran of the CIA,[3] have served on the Board of Directors for the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC.

Works

  • Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations that Helped Win the Cold War (2003), with Tony Mendez and Bruce Henderson.

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Gardner, Karen (December 11, 2011). "Undercover no more". Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Antonio Mendez: Author of the Master of Disguise and Spy Dust". Themasterofdisguise.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
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