Jonna Mendez

It was a moment.

This was something we'd worked on for 10 years and we were very proud of.

So first one to brief, I was then the first one to leave.

I went out to the outer office where the president's dog, Millie, had just had puppies, and I was actually on the floor playing with the puppies when the photographer came out and said, what did you just do?

Now, I know she took the pictures because I could hear the shutters clicking, and I said, I can't talk about it.

It's classified, and I think I put her out because it took 10 years to get the picture.

I was...

I was in CIA's office that resembled Q in the James Bond movies.

We made all the toys for James.

We made all the audio bugs, all the disguises, secret white concealment devices.

We didn't think a lot of James.

He wasn't technical, but we made him whatever toys he thought he needed, and we were more than happy to provide them.

So that in this office of Q, I was one of the very few women that was working my way through it.

I started out in clandestine photography.

I had been a photographer when I joined the CIA, amateur, and I was now teaching foreign agents around the world

and how to use our cameras to collect intelligence for the United States government.

Now you think camera, but you don't know what I'm talking about.

My cameras would fit in a lipstick, a cigarette lighter, a key fob, a fountain pen.

You could put it in a button behind your, you could put them anywhere.

And so I'm training all of these agents in how to use those cameras, how to be safe, how to get the information back to us.