Jonna Mendez

It was an interesting place to begin.

Because I was in the CIA and undercover, everything I did, every trip I took, every operation I took part in, I was typically using false documents, false name, and false look.

I was wearing disguise everywhere I went.

The foreign agents that I was training,

They all knew me as Jane from Washington.

That was my cover name.

It was not very exciting, but it worked really well.

There was a lot of obfuscation.

There was a lot of problems with neighbors and good friends who had no idea where I worked or what I did.

And so I told a good number of lies to them to try and cover the constant travel that I was undertaking.

It was a bad method of keeping your old friends, but I made a lot of new ones.

And eventually, I moved on to disguise.

Disguise was a fascinating new field that I wanted to be in.

I went to Hollywood and got involved with the areas of deception, illusion, and magic behind the scenes in LA.

So we were playing both sides of the...

of the game, we could provide almost anything that our case officers needed to do their jobs.

Always undercover, always with false documents, always with disguise.

The whole point was never to be seen.

You wanted to be invisible.

Being seen could get you killed, or the foreigners that you were working with.