Facial Mask (II)

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CIA disguise experts:

(1) he People of the CIA: Robert Barron; The making of an artist. CIA Featured Story, 2008
https://www.cia.gov/news-informa ... /robert-barron.html
(at the Agency "His responsibility was to work with a team to provide various traditional and advanced disguises for officers * * * 'The advanced disguises needed to be realistic enough to pass close scrutiny and distract attention away from officers to protect their lives,' Barron said * * * In 1983, Barron attended a conference held by the Association of Biomedical Sculptors. He was there to find out if the commercial world had any new materials to offer for disguise creation. In addition to discovering that the Agency was ahead of the commercial world in research, Barron discovered something life-changing: his second career. * * * When Barron retired in 1993, he was ready to get started in his new lab. Barron began designing prosthetic ears, eyes, noses, and full-face masks for burn patients")

Note: There is no need to read the rest.

(2) Jonna Mendez
(a) Read both from start to end.
(i) Kathryn Knight, Unmasked! Meet the CIA's Real Mistress of Disguise. Dailymail.com, Dec 3, 2010.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femai ... tress-disguise.html
("Born in Kansas to a conventional middle-class family and happily working as a teacher, she only fell into spy work after her 1969 wedding to her first husband, a CIA officer who only revealed his true identity two days before their wedding")

Well, another said she was born in Kentucky and implied she had not been a teacher before her CIA career. See (b)(i).
(ii) Jonna Mendez. The Cipher Brief, Apr 20, 2017.
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/m ... lusion-and-disguise
(b) There is no need to read the rest.
(i) Jonna Mendez. The Master of Disguise, undated
www.themasterofdisguise.com/about/jonna-mendez
("she retired in 1993")

Quote:

(A) "She lives with her family and works in her photo studio and the family gallery on their forty-acre farm in rural Maryland.

(B) "Jonna was born in 1945 in Kentucky where her family dates back six generations in Taylor County. She graduated from high school in Wichita, Kansas in 1963, attended college at Wichita State and found her way to Germany where she lived for several years, working for Chase Manhattan Bank in Frankfurt. She was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe in 1966.

"For many years she lived under cover and served tours of duty in Europe, the Far East, and the Subcontinent, as well as at CIA Headquarters. She joined the Office of Technical Service in early 1970 and within a few years she was back overseas as a Technical Operations Officer with a specialty in clandestine photography. Her duties included the preparation of the CIA’s most highly placed foreign assets in the use of spy cameras and the processing of the intelligence gathered by them. It was during these years abroad that she began developing her creative photography skills as well.

(ii) Jonna Mendez. Spy's Eye View Speaker Series, Washington DC: International Spy Museum, undated
https://www.spymuseum.org/host-a ... /tony-jonna-mendez/
("She worked with her husband in writing Spy Dust: A True Story of Espionage and Romance, and the book ARGO. They are currently writing Moscow Rules, to be published in autumn of 2018. * * * She is able to take a well-known figure and quickly disguise them to the level that they basically disappear and their colleagues would not be able to recognize them. * * * Jonna Mendez served 27 years undercover with the CIA, retiring as Chief of Disguise")
(i) Antonio J Mendez, Jonna Mendez with Bruce Henderson, Spy Dust; A true story of espionage and romance. Atria, 2003.
(ii) Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio, ARGO; How the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history. Viking, 2012.

Argo is a ship in Greek mythology. See Argonauts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonauts
(Argonauts "in the years before the Trojan War, around 1300 BC, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, Argo, named after its builder, Argus")

The book was adapted into a 2012 film of the same name, which in early 2013 won three Academy awards: for best picture, best adapted screenplay, and best film editing.
(iii) Antonio J Méndez, Joanna Mendez and Matt Baglio, The Moscow Rules; The secret CIA tactics that helped America win the Cold War. PublicAffairs, not published yet.