Jonna Mendez, Former CIA Operative, Explains How Spies Use Disguises. Former Chief of Disguise for the CIA, Jonna Mendez, explains how disguises are used in the CIA, and what aspects to the deception make for an effective disguise.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8  INTERESTING VIDEO. Shows HOW the CIA uses disguises. SHE FOOLED PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W, BUSH with a disquise. "Jonna Hiestand was born in 1945 in Campbellsville, Kentucky. In 1963, she graduated from high school in Wichita, Kansas and went on to attend college at Wichita State. After graduation, she worked for Chase Manhattan Bank in Frankfurt. In 1966, she was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe and started a career with them. In the CIA, Mendez lived under cover and served tours of duty in Europe, the Far East, and the Subcontinent, and at CIA Headquarters. In 1970, she joined the Office of Technical Service. As a technical operations officer, Mendez prepared the CIA's most highly placed foreign assets in the use of spy cameras and the processing of the intelligence gathered by them. In this role, she also developed her photography skills. In 1982, she was one of the few selected for a year-long leadership development program. At the program's completion, she was given a choice among some assignments and became a generalist in disguise, identity transformation, and clandestine imaging in South and Southeast Asia. She was assigned to Denied Area Operations for disguise in 1986. In 1988, she was promoted to Deputy Chief of the Disguise Division and in 1991, Chief of Disguise. During her tenure as Chief of Disguise, she met with President George H.W. Bush in a mask disguise, which she removed in the meeting to demonstrate the effectiveness of the art of disguise. In 1993, she retired and was awarded the CIA's Commendation Medal. Jonna Hiestand Goeser met her future second husband, Tony Mendez, also a CIA officer, on an operation in Bangkok. Following Mendez's retirement in 1990, they married in 1991"