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30 Minutes on Tradecraft, for free

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For the past decade, I have been on the staff of Eye Spy Magazine in England and we have some pretty good articles on old-school covert spycraft. However, the below 30-minute piece from Wired is outstanding.

It’s by Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise and the wife of the somewhat famous late Tony Mendez (Argo), and well worth your time if you are curious about how realistic some of the stuff you see in spy films is.

Tradecraft via rubber noses

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Wired had this great piece where they sat with former Chief of Disguise for the CIA, Jonna Mendez, who explains how disguises are used in the Agency, and what aspects to the deception make for an effective disguise. It really reminded me of the basic old-school tradecraft used in The Americans, which, incidentally was created by Joe Weisberg, who was a former CIA officer (never say, “agent”), recruited while at Yale.