Yes, there are times when one should be forgotten easily. There are also other times when others refuse to allow that to happen and it caused multiple problems.
I didn’t know she could get anymore badass... until I learnt that she herself was an active field agent and served for 25 years before retiring to become *CHIEF* of Disguise. Talk about life goals
17:08 I just have to say, I always thought the Clark Kent glasses disguise was ridiculous until I realized how many people don’t recognize me without my glasses on. People that see me every day, and just taking my glasses off makes me a stranger to them. It really is kind of wild.
Just glasses seems a bit weak. But I remember one time I was eating lunch with some church friends when a young woman comes up and sits down with us. It seemed odd to me, but everybody else seemed to know her. After about 15 minutes of casual conversation I realized she was the daughter of a couple at the table, somebody I saw every Sunday, but here she didn't have any makeup on.
@@MacNerfer Probably has to do with religion. To be in a church, listening to all the things that are obviously false and don't describe ANYTHING about the real world, to a large degree shuts off the reasoning aspect of your mind.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 calm down man, i'm not religious but it's ok to be, no one is going to die because they're going to church, let people do what they want with their lives.
She seems like the type of grandma that seems unassuming at first until she overhears how you've been bullied and then tells you how to totally obliterate them.
The contrast between her looking like an adorable grandmother and then her telling a story of the suicide of an agent that was about to be tortured without even a flinch is just so shocking. She's probably more lethal than all the characters she reviewed in these clips.
I can say as a nurse, we blend in. People often forget our names but will say "oh, the nurse yesterday" or "the dark-haired nurse". We blend in dramatically. In the last 8 years of my career, only about 5 patients have remembered me for an extended period of time, and it was because of either: a) having them as a patient for a deeply emotional experience, and b) if they were in the hospital for a long period of time and saw me frequently.
Mallory SF Wouldn’t you say though there’s a case to be made for adopting aspects of a persona that are more out there and unique? If you’re sussing out a spy, you might only expect to look at the most boring types who have high or convenient access to sensitive areas or material. The crazy red hair disguise is a good example of that.
I love that you can tell she takes great pride in everything she has done and accomplished, but also you can tell having to watch some of these clips just kills her inside.
She just told us that they had a professional seductress spy that did some “amazing things,” her words, during the Cold War- This is the best bit of information I think I’ve ever received
Listen to the Podcast WIND OF CHANGE, She's in that. It's about the theory that the SCORPIONS hit Song WIND OF CHANGE was written by the CIA. It's pretty amazing.
@Misanthropic Trilobite She was given a task and she performed. When you are in the upper echelon of society and your job has global ramifications, either you're the one to get it done or you will fail and be replaced and your country will revile your name.
@Misanthropic Trilobite The way her face and voice changes when she mentions those three are off limits makes me think that: A) There used to be an unwritten rule of not using those 3, and B) She was around to see the Old Guard be replaced with new blood who no longer followed those policies.
@Misanthropic Trilobite You are talking as if the world is simplistic and black and white when there are thousands of shades in between. Maybe save the hate until you've walked a few miles in their shoes and had to make the kinds of decisions that they have. Yes, it is quite likely that many of the decisions made by government agencies like these are decisions that most people, including myself, would find reprehensible, but there are strong reasons for making them and I don't consider myself god enough to condemn someone I don't know, without knowing what decisions they have made and why they made them. No one forced you to come here, so if your only reason for coming was to hate, then don't.
My grandpa told me he was a spy, not that I believe him, but the funny thing he said was that one of the most difficult things about being a spy is having 2 real jobs at the same time
Stating that a movie scene could have been used "as a training film" for the CIA is probably the highest compliment a director could get for accuracy. Sure, anyone can say that, but granted that Jonna makes it well known how much of an expert she is, even jokingly, that's high praise.
@@calderonjd30 ever heard of the phrase “hidden in plain sight?” When someone is being searched, people might remember the flashy redhead, but they won’t suspect her on account of how *different* she seemed. she was no longer some regular joe, which is what people would have asked for when referencing her original profile. A disguise like hers wouldn’t have even entered most people’s radars for someone to suspect, simply because she was so believably irrelevant to the case.
She’s a perfect example of you don’t need to yell or point a weapon to threaten a person. She looks like a normal grandmother but I would definitely not mess with her.
So true. She reminds me of a Scandal episode where the super-spy character Huck had a reunion with such regular-looking people who were his former colleagues; including a grandmother, not unlike this one, who ran a B&B but was also an expert arsonist...lol!
I would be more afraid of the power she could weild against you when she was in her position of power, now she is just a grandma who knows spycraft. This lady was a powerhouse within the machine, she wasn't someone the CIA set loose on the world. She is Q not James Bond.
@Mostly Peaceful lol if she was face to face with someone she had reason to kill and a gun she wouldn't think twice. Don't get me wrong if she wanted to run around the hood she would be hard but she is just a sneaky granny at this point.
Really loved the part when she pointed out the cultural differences. My Russian teacher said that spies had usually busted their covers when they needed to count or curse - two things that you instinctively do on your native language.
Stephanie Zhang hahaha I curse in English, say “AYaaaa” (the typical Chinese sound to express /anything/), and I switch between Portuguese and English when counting. But I’ve noticed I’ve been saying a few Spanish profanity.
@@stephaniezhang9600 Haha, I'm bilingual and for some reason, even though I use my Finnish for most interactions, since I live in Finland and it's my first learned language, it's still easier for me to curse in English..? :'D Maybe English curse words just... are easier to say or something? Or maybe in my case, they may sound less severe :D Finnish curse words are profound and usually sound like you're summoning demons xD
Yeah, have to be sincere, have to be a good person. The horror! No one could fit in! They see liars and morons a mile away... I'd love my spouse to have a keen mind.
"If you even try to steal my recipe for double fudge brownies i will make you disappear, i've done it multiple times before. Now, would you like some mashed potatoes, deary?
"Ben Affleck is playing my husband, Tony Mendez" What a life this woman has had. She also has a book and she's done a Reddit AMA that I'm definitely about to go read
I totally agree with the "distracting back and forth" bit at 2:14. Last few times people have tried committing banknote fraud with me they usually try asking me questions just as I'm counting the money or pulling out their change, luckily I notice what they're doing. But distraction is a big part of avoiding people noticing what you're doing or preventing them looking too closely at your documents.
My US history professor was a field agent for the CIA. I cant remember what he said they are called but they dont call themselves agents. He had a few interesting stories to tell. We didnt get many details but he did a lot of sitting alone listing to devices he and others planted.
@@pancaketrash534 if they didn't have those schools she would just say they didn't have them. Because she avoided saying that, that means they do have them.
Man I would never get into the spook business. You have no idea who is really giving the orders, and just like in that Ryan Reynolds/Denzel movie they are agents chased through the whole film and at the end discover their enemies are also working for the CIA. They run three different levels of every operation. The low level ground crew that are "doing their duty" for country, their handlers that think they know what they are really involved in, then above them are the real handlers that know what the hidden agenda is for that mission.
@@yaimavol "You have no idea who is really giving the orders" Isn't that the whole point of the CIA? Being secretive? So that whoever they're tracking down don't find out can't track them back?
She was one of the three contestants on Anthony Anderson's version of To Tell the Truth, as they told her story. I don't remember how many of the panel chose her but later in the SAME show, she showed up in a disguise and NO ONE knew it was the same woman. She's GOOD.
@@kathryncainmadsen5850 I have a 68 yr old uncle that looks the same as he did the day he was shot out the womb, so for some, yeah. Time is a suggestion my friend, not a rule. Source: back to the future 1 & 2
The key to Superman's disguise isn't really the glasses. It's that Clark doesn't *_behave_* anything like Superman. Combine that with people seeing what they expect to see, and it works. Even if someone did momentarily realize Clark and Superman looked similar, they'd immediately dismiss it as an obviously ludicrous idea.
@ThatOneAsianBroChick : I'm a bit disappointed though that she did not dive deeper into superman/ Clark Kent. Cause althought it is obviously silly, there is also good points to it. Clark Kent has an entirely different personnality (or at least he plays it very well): not very sure of himself, difficulty to assert himself and be taken seriously, shy, etc. So in addition to the glasses (ans journalist suit of course), this change of personnality is interesting; at the very least, he would make a decent spy if he had a real disguise. But I do agree that it is not enough for a long terme disguise, and that no one ever recognises him (especially close friends) is very silly.
@@bs13690 Did she judge then, yes absolutely, that was that objective off the video. But what I think the people above where getting at was that she was not mean spirited or belittling about it.
@@leovk5779 I'd understand if it was written in Lois' character to be facially blind (has difficulties recognizing people by their face) but all of his friends and family to be that or just plain stupid is a bit much
A few times she said something matter of factly and made my spine tingle... this woman might be the most dangerous woman in the world. She talked about an agent committing suicide as if she were talking about knitting or gardening... So nonchalant and cold..
@@trod146 She also talked about experiments about friggin reconstructing palates which left people with speech impairments but "sadly" were unsuccessful
I’m glad she found Matthew Rhys’ performance(s) in “The Americans” as impressive as I did. When i first began watching it, he tricked me a few times, I did not realize it was him in a disguise for almost an entire episode once. Keri Russell is phenomenal , as well, but Matthew Rhys blew me away.
@@GriseWeisshark the secret isn't out lmao. do you think cia would reveal important info on random TH-cam channels. Everyone knew l-pills in pens existed
@@duklurd9848 Your comment "the secret isn't out..." is replying to a comment that doesn't exist. Maybe it was deleted after your reply, or maybe you posted your comment in the wrong place.
Love how she just casually mentions her husband ran one of the most elaborate and amazing extrications ever attempted (not to mention without one bullet fired) in the history of the US
The one thing I didn't like about that is that it really downplayed the role of the canadians in that. It was a joint operation and the majority of it was done by the canadians...
@Slippery Sloper That is also true. It was the Canadian government that sheltered them and provided them with the fake passports. Their officials on site (and whatever else happened behind closed doors) were what mostly enabled them to accomplish this.
Despite all those spy action films I always thought that actual spy activity took a lot of time, and that included the disguising process: always just imagined a lot of time taken to fake a person. It was actually really interesting to learn that spies often did put on quick disguises to evade surveillance like in the movies.
This lady is the perfect cia op. She looks like the perfect quiet neighbor who watches out "maybe a little too much" Looks like she might be perfect to teach jk or have a baking blog. Really she is a cia OP
Interesting thing: Half of the woman doing baking blogs, or sewing, or any other how-tos will be a lot more made up (hair, make-up, the works). (Similar for men, though mostly: more attention to clothing, less make-up ;) ). Because: on youtube, we think (rightly or wrongly) that we have to catch attention with our looks. This is somebody who states her job, and she has our attention. Not gonna lie: I'm a bit envious.
@Don Mega Thats what makes her perfect. You expect her to be snoopy but not snoopy in the way that makes you think spy. So when you see her snooping you think "oh it is that annoying snoopy neighbor again" But not "oh that's a spy snooping on us". This gives her cover to be snoopy without having her cover blown if caught snooping.
In that case, Perry takes his job very seriously. He’s suppose to be a mindless platypus that doesn’t do much when in reality he has an entire planned schedule of things to do
I'm pretty sure they did that with wearable items similar to dentures and retainers. That would definitely be the easiest and safest way of going about it.
read this: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Pierre Bayard. This one book alowed me to pass more tests than you can imagine while in school. I sometimes even had grades higher than the students that actually read the book we had to read. www.amazon.ca/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read/dp/1596915439
@@adryld25 Hi, sorry for bothering whatsoever. But, do you have any recommendation about other books? I'd like to read 'em. If you don't mind, please let me know. Lastly, thank you so much and terribly sorry for my bad english :)
@@adryld25 Oh Hi, nice to meet you. Indonesian here :) mmm maybe about self-improvement and about life, whatsoever. I do really need that kind of book. Thank you so much :)
16:08 "He was dead before he hit the floor". The way she talked casually about how an agent got captured and committed suicide before being interrogated gave me goosebumps.
I agree with @Ryan Lynch her demeanor definitely changes before she talks about the agent biting the pen, as well as before the quoted line, she also looks down and the speed of her speach increases at that time.
It wasn't nonchalant. It was a professional maintaining control but there were emotional 'tells' that showed the incident impacted her as it would any normal human being. My hat off to her for the courage to make the choices she had to that led to the death and to being able to tell us about it now.
The one with the L-Pill pen, i have read (or watched) a story about the spy who took a sip on his pen when he was about to write his confession (maybe it was the story she was telling)...he was taken to hospital and every nurse and doctor who got into the room and inhaled whats coming out in his mouth died. I believe it was about 6 doctors that died not including the 2 men that took him there and nurses.
@@monmayor1467 Considering that she said he was dead before he hit the floor I would say this is not the same story. Frankly, yours sounds absolutely ludicrous.
She’s seen a few things most of us couldn’t even imagine. I feel like this lady looks like a mom who makes the best lasagna and yet is a totally brutal master of spy design.
@@tinaloye2014 was it really? I mean we see these things all the time in movies and read it in books. We see so much what happen in the world right now with torture and war.. does it really surprise you that someone can talk about htat without flinching?
I mean if you follow the subtext it's not that shocking to me. In some of the places a spy might be captured it's all but assured they will be tortured and thanks to the nature of the business still might not get out alive with a confession; Choosing death over that seems like a personal but logical decision, if an inhuman one.
I just found out that her husband, Tony Mendez, actually passed away early this year in January (the 19th to be specific). Given how long it takes to make these videos, this was possibly shot right around the time he died. They probably held this back in respect of him. Makes her talking about him all the more sadder. They were married since 1991 and actually met while they were on a mission in Russia of all places. RIP Tony Mendez
What do you mean "of all places" ? Russia is a pretty normal place. I am Russian and offended. Now you will pay for you insolence with your PC being hacked.
@@billboardbraggins1443 Like @Milly Z said, I meant 'of all places' bc she uses Russia as an example a lot and bc the odds of two CIA operatives in Russia, on two different missions, meeting, committing to getting to know each other outside the job, falling in love, getting married and having a kid and staying together for the remainder of his natural life are what? Astronomical? If it's any consolation, I meant no offense. I realize I could've been a little clearer in my original comment
It's nice to hear that the CIA has a few institutions that they won't use as a cover for ethical reasons, assuming this is really true. While I could probably think of a different/longer list of institutions that could/should be protected, I do like that they have the integrity of at least some if them in mind.
Doctors Without Borders (medicine sans frontiers) should also be on that list. Would be a very convenient disguise to sneak into a variety of countries, but they should be untouchable
ikr that killed me!!! i'm DEAD!!! 😂😂 She was so great and so funny just playing it straight like that and pulling no punches about the ill preparation of those characters. This was the video I did not know I needed.
I think that short-term disguises can be outrageous, while long-term, when you actually need to blend in and talk to someone longer, should be as ordinary as possible.
There's something to the glasses thing, but not an actual disguise. I changed my name to ditch the awful name I was given, and friends were struggling to emerge to use the new name. But when I started wearing glasses all the time instead of just to drive, their accuracy went way up. It flipped something over in the brain
"This woman had to be the most entertaining cocktail party guest ever." If you someone talking complete bollocks, which she does! It's well known that Intelligence agencies often use religious (priests, pastors), medical, media (journalists) and educational people in "spy" roles because people ask the least questions about these professions.
So of course, now people are going to start looking very closely at friendly old Father O'Brien who came out of nowhere and just the replaced the suddenly promoted priest down the street at Our Lady of the Disappearing Ink…
Though an understandable doubt, it's pretty much the same reason why the Geneva Convention forbids troops disguising themselves as members of the red cross. Which is that those groups are vulnerable and are treated as such and abusing said groups as a cloak will erode trust in them and at worse cause violence to be acted upon them.
@@5678sothourn Well, she's drawn attention to them now, so if they were using them, they soon will not. Could have been meant as a low blow to other organizations who commonly use priests, etc, who obviously now have to stop using them as well. Whether you believe her or not, attention is bad, and this draws attention both ways. But then again, nothing is true; everything is permitted. ;)
That's a technique often used to make lying easier by not technically lying. Assuming there such an academy, saying there isn't is a direct lie, however saying "I would tell you no" is not a lie and thus easier to state like a truthful sentence
Cool lady! Exciting life she must have had, and ofc it’s not like the movies. Takes experience, 100% commitment and confidence, few have it and they do not let people know they do have that. You can tell she is a true expert in her job, trained a bunch of people and maybe even was an amazing field agent. Very cool lady indeed. I also do the same, critical of movies like “that implausible, that’s not possible” 😂 not very fun for others but I also love a good spy movie and comedy’s, spy hard and fletch are soooo good
'You would ask me if the CIA has such a school, and I would tell you we don't.' She stresses she would tell that to you, but whether it's the truth or not is anyone's guess.
@@pohkeee My father was a minister and when someone in a hideous outfit would ask him how he liked it, he would reply, "I wanted to tell you how nice it looks," or "I must say it is quite (beautiful / handsome)." Depending upon their gender. Spies aren't the only ones who use that bit of diplomatic speaking.
@@CanderisOrdo did she or did she sell you on story she wanted you to believe. Notice how the CIA never does those things.... In that arena if you're in fair fight you failed on so many levels , one would question if you were the sacrificial pawn.......
"You have to be forgettable" I think I found my calling guys
Yes, there are times when one should be forgotten easily. There are also other times when others refuse to allow that to happen and it caused multiple problems.
How is bright red hair forgettable??
Ditto 😂😂😁😁
@@oP-qq2ib That specific persona, she was talking about, is forgettable. The little grey man.
@@daelaenor wdym?
"We can arrange....anything"
That was terrifying. I love it.
ikr
And her little smile that went with it!
I found it scary and a little thrilling too :o
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.
She may well have been the Chief of Disguise
If any viewer knows about 'body language' it is entirely obvious when she is Lying.....it just is
"Ben Affleck has played my husband in the movie Argo" HOW BADASS IS JUST BEING ABLE TO SAY THAT???? I love this lady omg
YASSSSSS
Right!?
Doda Garcia No wonder she smiled a little when Argo came on!
Doda Garcia the smile on her face when the clip started
NapoEz3 Save a few thousand, more like
She’s a total badass. With all the stuff she’s allowed to tell us, imagine what she isn’t allowed to talk about- it’s so fascinating.
Or maybe THEY want us to think what she is telling to be the whole truth
Is she a badass? Or a criminal?
i mean i think she’s talking about older disguises because she worked a while ago with them so i think it’s outdated now
I'm sorry but, I'm not allowed to let you imagine that.
some secrets, are better to remain secret.
Mystique. It's one of the most bankable tools of intelligence agents, everywhere. A half smile and "That's classified" can open so many doors.
First I was like: "If I saw her walking down the street, I'd never think she was the CIA chief of Disguise." Then I recognized that I am dumb.
amyleefan85 😂makes sense
or perhaps she's just good at her job. :)
Omg this made me laugh so hard haha
@@Kissfan96dr orili
she's not going to be wearing a badge saying I'm cia
I didn’t know she could get anymore badass... until I learnt that she herself was an active field agent and served for 25 years before retiring to become *CHIEF* of Disguise. Talk about life goals
Soooo... She must be in disguise in the video, as well. 🤔 Interesting.
@Deeky 123 What democratically elected governments?
@Deeky 123 Not even touching on Africa and the Middle East
@Deeky 123 The way you put it, it's even more badass.
@Deeky 123 Please, do tell us what motivates the "empire".
"nobody left our labs looking better, they leave our labs looking different"
me when i do my makeup
Is that also your goal? Or are you trying to look better? XD
Well, you can't get any better than perfect ;)
lmao!!!
😆😆
@@GH-Rav SIMP (even though ur probably female)
"Nobody left our labs looking better, they left our labs looking different."
Love that.
This woman perfectly illustrates that actual badasses don't need to brag about how badass they are. They just exude it.
Actually, the more badass you want to be, the less you need to look like one. Because nobody can even suspect.
@@dusan-renat Yeah.. Not the point.
Everybody already knows this
Don't fool yourself; she's bragging. She wouldn't be on TH-cam otherwise.
Rob Ishere
What's so bad about being proud of your skills?
"Ben Affleck is playing my husband..."
That is so casually badass
I definitely didn't see it coming, lol
Her husband is so good that HE could play Ben Affleck in disguise hahahaha
Office romances happen everywhere apparently, lol.
this entire thing is so casually badass
Ha ha 16, oct and I just wrote pretty much the same thing .... scrolling through the comments lol
Jonna: "We would never let that peice of a disguise fly away, that's evidence."
Criminals: Write that down, write that down!
CHARLES THE FRENCH REFERENCE
😂 😂 😂
I thought it was a SpongeBob reference (“The Camping Episode”)
😂
haha. you'd think that goes without saying. but then again most criminals aren't the brightest of people
17:08 I just have to say, I always thought the Clark Kent glasses disguise was ridiculous until I realized how many people don’t recognize me without my glasses on. People that see me every day, and just taking my glasses off makes me a stranger to them. It really is kind of wild.
Just glasses seems a bit weak. But I remember one time I was eating lunch with some church friends when a young woman comes up and sits down with us. It seemed odd to me, but everybody else seemed to know her. After about 15 minutes of casual conversation I realized she was the daughter of a couple at the table, somebody I saw every Sunday, but here she didn't have any makeup on.
@@MacNerfer Probably has to do with religion. To be in a church, listening to all the things that are obviously false and don't describe ANYTHING about the real world, to a large degree shuts off the reasoning aspect of your mind.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 calm down man, i'm not religious but it's ok to be, no one is going to die because they're going to church, let people do what they want with their lives.
Ur pfp scared me💀💀💀
Yes, true. Same here actually!!
"we do not recommend stealing". We just don't recommend it. You can do it though.
Imagine the fool that gets caught and blows their cover *for shoplifting* though...
Of course you can. So?
@@avamasquerade Well one would hope that they could escape mall security if they're a damned undercover spy...
Well I mean she's teaching you how to disguise yourself so you can get away with crime so it shouldn't be that surprising... Lol😂
When you're doing things that are illegal in a foreign country, shoplifting is probably the least of your concerns.
Lady sounds like she could dispose of a whole family of annoying neighbors and frame their golden retriever
Ha ha ha ha
shoot someone in the back of the head twice and have it be deemed a suicide.
LMAO
😂😂😂 poor Golden Retriever
Moderate commentator I NEED TO HIRE HER
“here you have ben affleck playing my husband” is an absolute power sentence and i want to be her
MOOD
@9:30 !
I’m glad someone appreciated that comment as much as I did
they met during an operation in Bangkok, epic.
bro what a queen
She seems like the type of grandma that seems unassuming at first until she overhears how you've been bullied and then tells you how to totally obliterate them.
Mine. Love her dearly. Not bullying traditional, but those against or out to ruin my quality of life. Need to go visit her as soon as possible. ❤
I would feel so protected ❤. Would change my life a lot!
"Ben Affleck played my husband" that is crazy, she said it so casually
Brie Bernier It took me a minute to get that she's talking about her actual husband and not her famous crush, as I would.
@@majrahabibija9742 ooooohhhhh that makes sense. I was so confused!
I say it casually too. ;)
@@sophii7906 Just try to use your brain next time.....
Hahaaha :D You beat me to it! Super casual mic drop... continues amazing stories equally as casually
sometimes i forget being a spy is an actual job that real life people have
Ikr. She is the real life Natasha Romanoff
Russian spy
Right??
same
She's actually a 20 hear old blonde. Fantastic disguise madame!
The contrast between her looking like an adorable grandmother and then her telling a story of the suicide of an agent that was about to be tortured without even a flinch is just so shocking. She's probably more lethal than all the characters she reviewed in these clips.
yo timestamp?
@@peezyy starts at 15:10 . Wait for it...
@@particularlytrue wow, thanks fam
@@peezyy pleasure
She is a lizard. CIA is for cold psychopathic people.
It's always the most normal looking people who are the most terrifying.
Slow Horses taught me spies don't look like James Bond, they mostly look like your alcoholic neighbor
@@W4TSKY Well, crap. I guess all of my neighbours are spies, then.
"Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young."
time stamp?
@@kalen5853 I think that's just a quote that applies to this woman
Crazy sentence. Can't think of anything. Military??? Gym? Olympics?
@@rafinha7081 Hunger Games
Rafinha It just means that if the person managed to survive in a profession people usually die early, they must really be good at their job.
I knew she was legit, but when it came to Argo and she said "affleck is playing my husband here" my jaw hit the floor
The CIA runs the world basically just in everyday clothes. They're above Hollywood all day long.
I was so sad to hear that because she lost her husband this January 😔😔
Protecting your national interests, one day at a time
I knooooow like the biggest behind the scenes ever.
As soon as she said that, outloud reactively I just said, "that's so f****** cool".
"Ben Affleck played my husband Tony Mendez" - that was quite unexpected
do u know why it says karen mendez was his wife online?
Karen was his first wife. After she died he married Jonna Goeser, who appears in this video.
Tony died in January. Rest in peace. :(
Guten oath aye 😂😂😂
@@emmaxiang7431 Karen was Mendez's first wife. She died of cancer early in the 1980s.
I can say as a nurse, we blend in. People often forget our names but will say "oh, the nurse yesterday" or "the dark-haired nurse". We blend in dramatically. In the last 8 years of my career, only about 5 patients have remembered me for an extended period of time, and it was because of either: a) having them as a patient for a deeply emotional experience, and b) if they were in the hospital for a long period of time and saw me frequently.
This woman's whole aura is like casually badass, I love it
hardcore
I was thinking the same thing. If this women start s TH-cam channel it would kill pewdiepie in a week.
Sums up perfectly what I lack words for...
@@CuteRuth Me too honestly
Chloé Chartrand “aura” 💀💀💀💀💀
its nice to notice how shes really trying to choose her words at times to avoid talking about probably still classified info
She also does not speak in definitives, talking about things that may have happened.
You would love Amaryllis Fox's book about the CIA.
The part about the "special school for women spies-trainee" tho
Her face freezes remind me of my guinea pigs.
Imagine if at the end of the video she had wiped away her makeup and taken off a wig and she was like 28 and Korean
especially if north korean :D
that would be rather extreme.
she is just your Father in law.
Miracles attract people. Being boring is the key to invisibility.
LOL that would be awesome
Mallory SF
Wouldn’t you say though there’s a case to be made for adopting aspects of a persona that are more out there and unique? If you’re sussing out a spy, you might only expect to look at the most boring types who have high or convenient access to sensitive areas or material. The crazy red hair disguise is a good example of that.
I love that you can tell she takes great pride in everything she has done and accomplished, but also you can tell having to watch some of these clips just kills her inside.
I don't care about these movie scenes. Just let this lady tell spy stories for 16 hours! 😂😂
Lulu Harshie
I totally agree.
Ikr!
@@hannahrose2862 Thank you so much for that video! I wouldn't have found it on my own but I'm so glad you pointed it out, it was very interesting.
Top secret
@@hannahrose2862 Great link! Thanks!
I love that she understands that just because something isn't accurate to real life doesn't mean it's bad or not entertaining.
your comment is so underrated!
I so agree, and it's how you can have fun in life in general, almost have to at times. Real life is a personal, relative term anyway.
If only you knew the darkness this lady has contributed too.
I vote for having this lady do a 8 hour podcast just talking about "the funny stories". Please, pretty please!
I don't think she'd be allowed to talk about those in detail
@@medeaworbs6970 I´m late to my own thread. Sorry. But yes - probably. She could make them up, I'll still be happy!
727 likes... A palindrome.
She actually did tell one of her stories on the podcast ISpy!
Ramzes Motoa oh my, you are a fluffy happy unicorn aren't you😂
She just told us that they had a professional seductress spy that did some “amazing things,” her words, during the Cold War- This is the best bit of information I think I’ve ever received
This woman is more interesting then the films and shows about spies.
I can’t legally like this because it’s at 222
@@GenevieveC well you can now
First couple seasons of the Americans is good though!
no sheis acunt
than
Ok so you can say 'My husband is playing Ben Affleck' but being able to say 'Ben Affleck is playing my husband'...that's a whole new level
And how casually she says it! Like no big deal, my husband and I are basically the real life "Mr & Mrs Smith"
Well I mean usagi you should know because your sailor moon
that’s such a flex
Austin power also disguises to become guru pitka. 😜
Listen to the Podcast WIND OF CHANGE, She's in that. It's about the theory that the SCORPIONS hit Song WIND OF CHANGE was written by the CIA. It's pretty amazing.
"We can arrange.. anything." Such a confidence. I love her talking.
@Misanthropic Trilobite She was given a task and she performed. When you are in the upper echelon of society and your job has global ramifications, either you're the one to get it done or you will fail and be replaced and your country will revile your name.
@Misanthropic Trilobite The way her face and voice changes when she mentions those three are off limits makes me think that: A) There used to be an unwritten rule of not using those 3, and B) She was around to see the Old Guard be replaced with new blood who no longer followed those policies.
@Misanthropic Trilobite You are talking as if the world is simplistic and black and white when there are thousands of shades in between. Maybe save the hate until you've walked a few miles in their shoes and had to make the kinds of decisions that they have.
Yes, it is quite likely that many of the decisions made by government agencies like these are decisions that most people, including myself, would find reprehensible, but there are strong reasons for making them and I don't consider myself god enough to condemn someone I don't know, without knowing what decisions they have made and why they made them.
No one forced you to come here, so if your only reason for coming was to hate, then don't.
@Misanthropic Trilobite You really are a clown.
My grandpa told me he was a spy, not that I believe him, but the funny thing he said was that one of the most difficult things about being a spy is having 2 real jobs at the same time
Stating that a movie scene could have been used "as a training film" for the CIA is probably the highest compliment a director could get for accuracy. Sure, anyone can say that, but granted that Jonna makes it well known how much of an expert she is, even jokingly, that's high praise.
Yes...but didn't she also say never to draw that much attention to your self in a disguise 🤔...
The disguise in that movie was way to flashy
@@calderonjd30 Sometimes it's about reverse psychology. Sometimes it's about the indifference of people towards such outfits.
@@calderonjd30 ever heard of the phrase “hidden in plain sight?” When someone is being searched, people might remember the flashy redhead, but they won’t suspect her on account of how *different* she seemed. she was no longer some regular joe, which is what people would have asked for when referencing her original profile. A disguise like hers wouldn’t have even entered most people’s radars for someone to suspect, simply because she was so believably irrelevant to the case.
@@pokaay3163 nice take
@@pokaay3163 Yeah. In some circumstances 'flashy redhead' is great - as long as that's the ONLY thing people are going to remember about you.
Too bad they didn't show her the most flawless and highly effective disguise - the Hannah Montana disguise
🤣🤣🤣
Lmaoooo
Wait. Hannah Montana is fake?
Ikr? It's right up there with Clark Kent! Who knew?
😆😆
She’s a perfect example of you don’t need to yell or point a weapon to threaten a person. She looks like a normal grandmother but I would definitely not mess with her.
So true. She reminds me of a Scandal episode where the super-spy character Huck had a reunion with such regular-looking people who were his former colleagues; including a grandmother, not unlike this one, who ran a B&B but was also an expert arsonist...lol!
I would
@@andreilyas1426 alright edge lord that would require to come out of your parents house lol
I would be more afraid of the power she could weild against you when she was in her position of power, now she is just a grandma who knows spycraft. This lady was a powerhouse within the machine, she wasn't someone the CIA set loose on the world. She is Q not James Bond.
@Mostly Peaceful lol if she was face to face with someone she had reason to kill and a gun she wouldn't think twice. Don't get me wrong if she wanted to run around the hood she would be hard but she is just a sneaky granny at this point.
"we can arrange . . . anything." she says then adds a quick little grin & glint in her eyes. . . haha
Imagine being her grandchild, Just imagine all those badass stories
Over freshly baked cookies by grandma
Imagine sneaking out😭
Xx woah.its.kasandra Xx bruh you wouldn’t even get out of your room before she knows
Non disclosure agreements bro. She's legally obligated not to share
@@xxwoah.its.kasandraxx2088 you go to your dealer. They rip off a mask and boom. Grandma
Really loved the part when she pointed out the cultural differences. My Russian teacher said that spies had usually busted their covers when they needed to count or curse - two things that you instinctively do on your native language.
I'm bilingual- I count in Chinese and curse in English
Stephanie Zhang hahaha I curse in English, say “AYaaaa” (the typical Chinese sound to express /anything/), and I switch between Portuguese and English when counting. But I’ve noticed I’ve been saying a few Spanish profanity.
@@StoneOfMoon Oh wowwwwww that's really cool
@@stephaniezhang9600 same! i count in spanish but i mostly curse in english
@@stephaniezhang9600 Haha, I'm bilingual and for some reason, even though I use my Finnish for most interactions, since I live in Finland and it's my first learned language, it's still easier for me to curse in English..? :'D Maybe English curse words just... are easier to say or something? Or maybe in my case, they may sound less severe :D Finnish curse words are profound and usually sound like you're summoning demons xD
Her family would be a seriously scary family to marry into.
Hella cool too. I’d love to learn every trick
It would be fun to marry into her family.
SURPRISE she is your Father in law.
Yeah, have to be sincere, have to be a good person. The horror! No one could fit in! They see liars and morons a mile away... I'd love my spouse to have a keen mind.
"If you even try to steal my recipe for double fudge brownies i will make you disappear, i've done it multiple times before. Now, would you like some mashed potatoes, deary?
Love how she just casually mentions her husband ran one of the most elaborate and amazing extrications ever attempted in the history of the US
"Ben Affleck is playing my husband, Tony Mendez"
What a life this woman has had. She also has a book and she's done a Reddit AMA that I'm definitely about to go read
Would you mind sharing that ama link? Sounds like a good read.
omg thank you for this!
@Website guy They probably deserved it
@Website guy deserved it = not innocent #MindBlown
@Website guy casualties of war, think about the even more innocents she has probably saved that will never know it
"Most of our men, and probably a majority of our women, would not have been caught dead in a black cat suit."
I laughed so hard! 🤣
i love how that implies that at least some of the men think that they could pull it off
Because all of them who use those suits have pull it off :)
i’d look hot in a black cat suit
@@jed1483 I can imagine!
That's a way to make sure they don't get caught, clever one !
“Ben Aflek is playing my husband Tony Mendez-“ is the most metal thing I have ever heard
th-cam.com/video/iK3aKNKJgkY/w-d-xo.html
you mean meta?
@@judithofficial982 excuse me but what does that have to do with anything going on here?
@@TiffanyTwisted-u9m it's a bot, don't interact with it.
@@isabelhoch3713 I think they're saying "metal" as a synonym for "badass"
I totally agree with the "distracting back and forth" bit at 2:14.
Last few times people have tried committing banknote fraud with me they usually try asking me questions just as I'm counting the money or pulling out their change, luckily I notice what they're doing. But distraction is a big part of avoiding people noticing what you're doing or preventing them looking too closely at your documents.
sorry but "CIA Chief of disguise" is officially the coolest job description I've ever heard in my life
I can't think of anything more interesting 😭
My US history professor was a field agent for the CIA. I cant remember what he said they are called but they dont call themselves agents. He had a few interesting stories to tell. We didnt get many details but he did a lot of sitting alone listing to devices he and others planted.
@@Zelmel Like their name implies, intelligence gathering is central to their agency.
absolutely
@Bryan Smith explain
“You could ask me if the CIA had those schools, and I would say no”
My dad was in a similar field and talks like that all the time
The funny thing is, that this statement gives no definitive answer.
@@cimsim597 Which is exactly the point.
@@cimsim597 It actually does very much so.
Charley Martinez-Rodriguez so what is the statement?
@@pancaketrash534 if they didn't have those schools she would just say they didn't have them. Because she avoided saying that, that means they do have them.
Did she literally just casually say, with a smile, that one of her agents failed his mission, so he had to kill himself with a pill?
Just like she said. Nothing u can do if u get caught, ur just done. Deal with it yourself
Man I would never get into the spook business. You have no idea who is really giving the orders, and just like in that Ryan Reynolds/Denzel movie they are agents chased through the whole film and at the end discover their enemies are also working for the CIA. They run three different levels of every operation. The low level ground crew that are "doing their duty" for country, their handlers that think they know what they are really involved in, then above them are the real handlers that know what the hidden agenda is for that mission.
I got the impression that she was talking about a source, not an agent. Could be wrong.
yaimavol lol hitmans bodyguard
@@yaimavol "You have no idea who is really giving the orders"
Isn't that the whole point of the CIA? Being secretive? So that whoever they're tracking down don't find out can't track them back?
She was one of the three contestants on Anthony Anderson's version of To Tell the Truth, as they told her story. I don't remember how many of the panel chose her but later in the SAME show, she showed up in a disguise and NO ONE knew it was the same woman. She's GOOD.
There's a whole other world out there we can't even imagine
.
I don't think I want to know
Or can we? 🤯
I want to be a part of it so badly.
🎶"All we can do is Imagine... In your mind, anything can happen."🎶
-Cody Ko, Imagine
Lady: "in Argo Ben Affleck played my husband.."
Me: REWIND
ilove2929 Right?! She’s a badass and her husband is a badass too!
ME TOO I WAS SHOCKED omg
yeah, i was like:
hmm excuse me wtf?
I had to pause
ME TOO HAHAHAHAHAHHA
She's like a badass grandma that no one expects to be a badass
@Iron Ostrich keep crying.
As if, people around the globe are well wishers of the US.
You think older people were always old, lol
th-cam.com/video/iK3aKNKJgkY/w-d-xo.html
@@johncarter40101 wonder why john
@@kathryncainmadsen5850 I have a 68 yr old uncle that looks the same as he did the day he was shot out the womb, so for some, yeah. Time is a suggestion my friend, not a rule.
Source: back to the future 1 & 2
The key to Superman's disguise isn't really the glasses. It's that Clark doesn't *_behave_* anything like Superman. Combine that with people seeing what they expect to see, and it works. Even if someone did momentarily realize Clark and Superman looked similar, they'd immediately dismiss it as an obviously ludicrous idea.
Posture totally different
She's so pleasantly nonjudgemental about the sillier clips.
@ThatOneAsianBroChick : I'm a bit disappointed though that she did not dive deeper into superman/ Clark Kent. Cause althought it is obviously silly, there is also good points to it. Clark Kent has an entirely different personnality (or at least he plays it very well): not very sure of himself, difficulty to assert himself and be taken seriously, shy, etc. So in addition to the glasses (ans journalist suit of course), this change of personnality is interesting; at the very least, he would make a decent spy if he had a real disguise. But I do agree that it is not enough for a long terme disguise, and that no one ever recognises him (especially close friends) is very silly.
I found her to be plenty judgmental about all of them.
@@bs13690 Did she judge then, yes absolutely, that was that objective off the video. But what I think the people above where getting at was that she was not mean spirited or belittling about it.
@@leovk5779 I'd understand if it was written in Lois' character to be facially blind (has difficulties recognizing people by their face) but all of his friends and family to be that or just plain stupid is a bit much
They showed her my name is Jeff for the meme
9:20 the way she looked at the camera when she said "we can arrange....anything..." was unexpectedly chilling.
That was a mic-drop if I *ever* saw one. :)
Remind me never fk with her EVER =))))
A few times she said something matter of factly and made my spine tingle... this woman might be the most dangerous woman in the world. She talked about an agent committing suicide as if she were talking about knitting or gardening... So nonchalant and cold..
@@trod146 She also talked about experiments about friggin reconstructing palates which left people with speech impairments but "sadly" were unsuccessful
And also "Ben Affleck is playing my husband"
When you’re chief of disguise at CIA and your Husband is the best Exfil at CIA. what a total flex.
How does she ever know who her husband is or looks like?! She looks so chilly, probably PTSD?
That's what im saying
This woman is super dope. “They said he was dead before he even hit the floor” ZERO flinch.
she's so unthreatening at first but by the end of this i feel like she could definitely have me killed and frame my cat for the murder.
What's more flex is saying they're your parents. cool af.
I’m glad she found Matthew Rhys’ performance(s) in “The Americans” as impressive as I did. When i first began watching it, he tricked me a few times, I did not realize it was him in a disguise for almost an entire episode once. Keri Russell is phenomenal , as well, but Matthew Rhys blew me away.
seriously. I was like, "wow, that guy looks like my therapist."
One of the most underrated series of all time!
When she was telling the story of the Agent who committed suicide. All I could think was how lucky he was that they even gave him his pen
Same thought here!
@@GriseWeisshark the secret isn't out lmao. do you think cia would reveal important info on random TH-cam channels. Everyone knew l-pills in pens existed
@@duklurd9848 uh wrong comment?
@@SpookedeeB ???
@@duklurd9848 Your comment "the secret isn't out..." is replying to a comment that doesn't exist. Maybe it was deleted after your reply, or maybe you posted your comment in the wrong place.
Love how she just casually mentions her husband ran one of the most elaborate and amazing extrications ever attempted (not to mention without one bullet fired) in the history of the US
yea seriously
The one thing I didn't like about that is that it really downplayed the role of the canadians in that. It was a joint operation and the majority of it was done by the canadians...
@@Shade01982 oh I always thought they were just claiming to be Canadians.
@Slippery Sloper That is also true. It was the Canadian government that sheltered them and provided them with the fake passports. Their officials on site (and whatever else happened behind closed doors) were what mostly enabled them to accomplish this.
Ur right, however, Canadian ambassador and his wife did make a huge role, and Canada helped them get the plabe ticket if im not mistaken
I love how she talks about doing super illegal stuff but in a super vague way
Like a true agent.
It's not illegal if your working for the CIA/government
@@destryedbyhippiepwrs he meant unethical
SEND ME HATE ON MY VIDEOSSS..
@@destryedbyhippiepwrs not really illegal, depending on what it is they're doing, just frowned upon if you're caught.
Despite all those spy action films I always thought that actual spy activity took a lot of time, and that included the disguising process: always just imagined a lot of time taken to fake a person. It was actually really interesting to learn that spies often did put on quick disguises to evade surveillance like in the movies.
Fr I always thought that part was made up
What about the most accurate spy movie of all time: *Spy Kids*
Too accurate. She might spill something confidential.
Mmmmmhmmm
Hahah... U guys r so funny
That was a leaked mission
Too confidential, if people find out about the truth behind it, the world of espionage will never recover
This lady is the perfect cia op. She looks like the perfect quiet neighbor who watches out "maybe a little too much" Looks like she might be perfect to teach jk or have a baking blog. Really she is a cia OP
ikr? If I weren't told I would've never guessed that she's in the CIA. She looks like a high school teacher or a librarian!
Interesting thing: Half of the woman doing baking blogs, or sewing, or any other how-tos will be a lot more made up (hair, make-up, the works). (Similar for men, though mostly: more attention to clothing, less make-up ;) ).
Because: on youtube, we think (rightly or wrongly) that we have to catch attention with our looks.
This is somebody who states her job, and she has our attention.
Not gonna lie: I'm a bit envious.
Codename: 'Karen' ha
@Don Mega Thats what makes her perfect. You expect her to be snoopy but not snoopy in the way that makes you think spy. So when you see her snooping you think "oh it is that annoying snoopy neighbor again" But not "oh that's a spy snooping on us". This gives her cover to be snoopy without having her cover blown if caught snooping.
@@Duke00x Perfect summary of snooping that's just snoopy enough but not so snoopy it's poopy.
They should have shown her agent P and Perry the platypus, if that ain’t CIA level I don’t know what is
lmao 😂
In that case, Perry takes his job very seriously. He’s suppose to be a mindless platypus that doesn’t do much when in reality he has an entire planned schedule of things to do
lmao bro real talk, when Perry puts on his disguise I never notice until Doofenshmirt figures it out.
That ain't CIA level, thats OWCA level
The only bad thing is that they always notice that he's gone though
Holy crap, she just casually said that they literally tried deforming people's palates to change their voices. She is frightening, to say the least.
They probably used dental plates, like the kind they use with dentures, with attachments to change the shape of the palate.
Jon in rural BC, Canada
I'm pretty sure they did that with wearable items similar to dentures and retainers. That would definitely be the easiest and safest way of going about it.
Yeah I highly doubt it was surgery or anything, it would just be putting a device in the mouth.
No, it's just a piece of shaped plastic or some other material to change the shape of the palate. They showed it in another video that she did.
I want to learn how she answer questions while not answering questions
(Edit: read the replies for some amazing book recommendations)
read this: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Pierre Bayard. This one book alowed me to pass more tests than you can imagine while in school. I sometimes even had grades higher than the students that actually read the book we had to read.
www.amazon.ca/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read/dp/1596915439
@@adryld25 Hi, sorry for bothering whatsoever. But, do you have any recommendation about other books? I'd like to read 'em. If you don't mind, please let me know. Lastly, thank you so much and terribly sorry for my bad english :)
@@jathuraa1217 any subject in particular? I could suggest a lot of books. My first language is French...
@@adryld25 Oh Hi, nice to meet you. Indonesian here :) mmm maybe about self-improvement and about life, whatsoever. I do really need that kind of book. Thank you so much :)
@@jathuraa1217 This comment is my bookmark
We she said.we don’t have uniforms but we can arrange...anything.. I got chills
YKR! Me Too! I swallowed twice! I've always thought the real deal would make much better movies/tv shows than 75% of what Hollywood dreams up!
SAME! I was like “I bet you can” 😳
Not animated masks apparently.
16:08 "He was dead before he hit the floor".
The way she talked casually about how an agent got captured and committed suicide before being interrogated gave me goosebumps.
*"They said he was dead before he hit the floor."
She is used to talking about it normally
You could see a small hitch in her demeanor when she broached the subject though. This was still very real to her even if it wasn't openly expressed.
I agree with @Ryan Lynch her demeanor definitely changes before she talks about the agent biting the pen, as well as before the quoted line, she also looks down and the speed of her speach increases at that time.
It wasn't nonchalant. It was a professional maintaining control but there were emotional 'tells' that showed the incident impacted her as it would any normal human being. My hat off to her for the courage to make the choices she had to that led to the death and to being able to tell us about it now.
Absolutely amazing job done by Ms. Mendez. She deconstruct all clips in so professional and calm manner that it is just amazing to watch.
The way she says "Ben Affleck plays my husband" actually means, "Ben Affleck should be proud, not the other way around"; and I agree.
No doubt about that
"We don't have stores of maintenance uniforms or military uniforms, but we can arrange... anything."
This woman scares me.
The one with the L-Pill pen, i have read (or watched) a story about the spy who took a sip on his pen when he was about to write his confession (maybe it was the story she was telling)...he was taken to hospital and every nurse and doctor who got into the room and inhaled whats coming out in his mouth died. I believe it was about 6 doctors that died not including the 2 men that took him there and nurses.
That pause, tho...
@@monmayor1467 Considering that she said he was dead before he hit the floor I would say this is not the same story. Frankly, yours sounds absolutely ludicrous.
@cak01vej i'm not really sure about the authenticity of the story i read. I can't find it on google
What is the substance put in the pen? Must be hella potent and faster acting then cyanide.
She just casually mentions an agent killing themselves in order to prevent an interrogation. Just like it’s as interesting as the weather.
Right?!? That was frightening
She’s seen a few things most of us couldn’t even imagine. I feel like this lady looks like a mom who makes the best lasagna and yet is a totally brutal master of spy design.
@@tinaloye2014 was it really?
I mean we see these things all the time in movies and read it in books.
We see so much what happen in the world right now with torture and war.. does it really surprise you that someone can talk about htat without flinching?
MasumiSeike yes. It does. Just because you see it and hear about it doesn't mean that violence and death is ever easier to find out about
I mean if you follow the subtext it's not that shocking to me. In some of the places a spy might be captured it's all but assured they will be tortured and thanks to the nature of the business still might not get out alive with a confession; Choosing death over that seems like a personal but logical decision, if an inhuman one.
I never thought I'd hear an actual CIA person compliment Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of all things on a disguise.
This old lady is so good she’s fooling everyone to thinking she’s an old lady but in actuality it’s Tupac Shakur.
Im dead bruhh
no he’s right there in the video wearing a mask
Hail Mary - Tupac
She's what real spies look like. Ordinary every day forgettable people.
If they didn't look like that they wouldn't be effective I guess.
And a Trump lookalike.
@@alzarian3702 don't do her like that
Are you telling me Archer is a lie
Explains alot. Pretty sure i saw several in cali at the library casually strewn about reading newspapers but paying attention.
I just found out that her husband, Tony Mendez, actually passed away early this year in January (the 19th to be specific). Given how long it takes to make these videos, this was possibly shot right around the time he died. They probably held this back in respect of him. Makes her talking about him all the more sadder.
They were married since 1991 and actually met while they were on a mission in Russia of all places.
RIP Tony Mendez
Ghina Naeem oh wow interesting! Even more so bc that’s on my birthday. SIP to her hubby
What do you mean "of all places" ? Russia is a pretty normal place. I am Russian and offended. Now you will pay for you insolence with your PC being hacked.
Billboard Braggins i think because she used Russia quite a few times as an example for certain techniques.
@@millyzett Lol i know no worries ))
@@billboardbraggins1443 Like @Milly Z said, I meant 'of all places' bc she uses Russia as an example a lot and bc the odds of two CIA operatives in Russia, on two different missions, meeting, committing to getting to know each other outside the job, falling in love, getting married and having a kid and staying together for the remainder of his natural life are what? Astronomical?
If it's any consolation, I meant no offense. I realize I could've been a little clearer in my original comment
It's nice to hear that the CIA has a few institutions that they won't use as a cover for ethical reasons, assuming this is really true. While I could probably think of a different/longer list of institutions that could/should be protected, I do like that they have the integrity of at least some if them in mind.
Of course the CIA has spies in those professions as well, why would you believe what she says?
Too tired and love Aunt Jonna way to much to rain on your/her parade.
Doctors Without Borders (medicine sans frontiers) should also be on that list. Would be a very convenient disguise to sneak into a variety of countries, but they should be untouchable
i love her flex right there. "ben afleck is playing my husband"
Good thing Ben didn't make Gigli or Daredevil immediately after Argo, or the "flex" might've been a little awkward.
“Her flex?” 🤷🏼♀️
@@westaussie965 yes... her flex
Now there's a couple you'd love to have over for a dinner party or game night.... if those existed outside of movies...or Covid quarantine, lol
OMG can you imagine having those two as grandparents??
They really got this spy professional to watch “my name Jeff”
They sure did
lmfao
I nearly choked laughing at that. I think that scene is amusing anyway, but making this wonderful woman analyse it is just too funny.
ikr that killed me!!! i'm DEAD!!! 😂😂 She was so great and so funny just playing it straight like that and pulling no punches about the ill preparation of those characters. This was the video I did not know I needed.
I love this
"We can arrange.... anything." That sentence really stood out to me. The absolute power!
I could probably watch 2 hours of this. She must have some really cool stories to share
Ok. So what I've learnt: either be incredibly subtle and forgettable, or be incredibly outrageous. Pick a side and act that way.
I think that short-term disguises can be outrageous, while long-term, when you actually need to blend in and talk to someone longer, should be as ordinary as possible.
@@cawareyoudoin7379 yeah, I agree
And act it well
Id say it depends on each situation.
This lesson being learned by stalin is a bit unsettling
I looked it up and her husband actually died earlier this year. RIP ❤️
Aww that's sad..
Mr.Cenourinha san honestly i hope so 😔
same it said he died on my birthday too idk if he is actually dead though or a cover up for something
Amiya Sloan awe
CIA. Live by the sword, .....
"in this clip ben affleck is playing my husband" what a flex
Yooo that’s exactly what I just commented lol
Ben afflex
Lmao ikr way to flex on all of us
Lauren yeah it’s crazy. Really sad he died a few months before this video was uploaded 😦
Right
There's something to the glasses thing, but not an actual disguise. I changed my name to ditch the awful name I was given, and friends were struggling to emerge to use the new name. But when I started wearing glasses all the time instead of just to drive, their accuracy went way up. It flipped something over in the brain
This woman had to be the most entertaining cocktail party guest ever.
Or not because she can't speak to specifics because of clearance levels
@@ypop417 I found what she was able to talk about here wildly interesting.
"This woman had to be the most entertaining cocktail party guest ever."
If you someone talking complete bollocks, which she does! It's well known that Intelligence agencies often use religious (priests, pastors), medical, media (journalists) and educational people in "spy" roles because people ask the least questions about these professions.
I'm sure your internet research is fascinating, but I don't believe you.
I'm sure you're a lovely cocktail party guest, too, if that makes you feel better. As long as I'm not there, anyway.
"There are three disguises that are off limits for the CIA."
That sounds like something a spy would say about their favorite disguises.
So of course, now people are going to start looking very closely at friendly old Father O'Brien who came out of nowhere and just the replaced the suddenly promoted priest down the street at Our Lady of the Disappearing Ink…
Though an understandable doubt, it's pretty much the same reason why the Geneva Convention forbids troops disguising themselves as members of the red cross.
Which is that those groups are vulnerable and are treated as such and abusing said groups as a cloak will erode trust in them and at worse cause violence to be acted upon them.
So they would allow her to give it away like that? Think about it for a sec
@@5678sothourn Well, she's drawn attention to them now, so if they were using them, they soon will not. Could have been meant as a low blow to other organizations who commonly use priests, etc, who obviously now have to stop using them as well. Whether you believe her or not, attention is bad, and this draws attention both ways.
But then again, nothing is true; everything is permitted. ;)
Paul Zink read that again. Did you have a stroke halfway through writing that?
"You need to be able to change in 37 seconds"
Me who was in drama club for 6 years
*BET*
“How about 10 seconds? Beat that, CIA #quickchangeassasin”
Lol me too! I used to be in plays in high school
Theater kids RISE UP!
D G we really are, i get you
Ah yes theater kids still annoying
9:35 "He's playing my husband, Tony Mendez" My mind literally explode.
Her and her husband might just be the most dangerous couple alive.
Unfortunately, Tony died last January. I didn't even know him, but he was one of my favorite authors and it devastated me, anyway.
@Tarkle "Her [She] and her husband..."
@@Lawliet734 her husband was called Tony and died in January.
English died too
@@LeslieLanagan :(
"Ben Affleck played my husband" she says that like it's something that happens every Wednesday
issou
Yeah lmao she did say it so casually! Also, her husband passed away in January this year.
i literally did a double take and had to pause
Adam Daly or even every Tuesday!
best flex on youtube
I love the "you might ask me if the CIA had any such academy. And I would tell you we don't." That's....that's not a direct no.
That's a technique often used to make lying easier by not technically lying. Assuming there such an academy, saying there isn't is a direct lie, however saying "I would tell you no" is not a lie and thus easier to state like a truthful sentence
@@lukebrainman It's called Double Speak and it is lying.
@@peaknonsense2041 She says "I would tell you no". If she would actually tell you no, then that's true. The no itself may be a lie.
You can never be to sure... I mean she is literally the chief of disguise.
But given that it could be an advantage, I'd bet the US has it lol
Exactly.
Cool lady! Exciting life she must have had, and ofc it’s not like the movies. Takes experience, 100% commitment and confidence, few have it and they do not let people know they do have that. You can tell she is a true expert in her job, trained a bunch of people and maybe even was an amazing field agent. Very cool lady indeed. I also do the same, critical of movies like “that implausible, that’s not possible” 😂 not very fun for others but I also love a good spy movie and comedy’s, spy hard and fletch are soooo good
They need to fire whoever keeps putting stupid clips after every sentence she says
I know right? They did that with the hacker guy too
So f**king annoying
@@your_dad_on_vacation ugh yea like cmon shes so amazingly sophisticated and they ruined it with their unfunny humour
i read that as setting the guy on fire
@@ik6non712 that works too
SEND ME HATE ON MY VIDEOSSS..
'You would ask me if the CIA has such a school, and I would tell you we don't.'
She stresses she would tell that to you, but whether it's the truth or not is anyone's guess.
Jj W I had the same thought, lol.
That particular truthful evasion is useful and missed by 95% of listeners!
@@pohkeee My father was a minister and when someone in a hideous outfit would ask him how he liked it, he would reply, "I wanted to tell you how nice it looks," or "I must say it is quite (beautiful / handsome)." Depending upon their gender. Spies aren't the only ones who use that bit of diplomatic speaking.
Yeah, I am drawn to believe everything she says, except for that!
It's too obvious, though. She would know that her every word is being picked apart. There's no reason to not just flat-out lie.
I need this women to have a channel and just tell us amazing spy stories! She just exudes an aura of badassery
She's never going to be able to talk about that stuff
maria c she did here!
@@CanderisOrdo did she or did she sell you on story she wanted you to believe. Notice how the CIA never does those things.... In that arena if you're in fair fight you failed on so many levels , one would question if you were the sacrificial pawn.......
@Notorious1503 Not any real ones anyway.....
Sometimes when one person works for the government they can't say or tell any stories involving sensitive government information.
I love how she just casually talked about the lethal pill 😂