Her photography work, which she now does every variety of places. It is on exhibit and at their home in maryland. She and tony have lectured in a variety of places, World Affair Councils colleges, and so forth. She is a regular appearer here on either a panel or as a single lecture. I will mention one book. I think this was your first book. Spy dust. It is about their years in moscow. Denied area operations. This is where you first hear the term moscow rules. It is used, this book, in, often with new intelligence personnel coming into the agency. Its that good, and it covers that many operations. So i have said enough. Jonna, it is delightful to have you here. Please help me welcome jonna mendez. [applause] good morning. There is no better way to start the day than to be introduced by peter. It is inspiring. In another life, in another time , i lived in d. C. And i was the smithsonian resident associate. I did so many programs with the smithsonian once we moved out of washington, d. C.
This is about an hour and half. Let me address our speaker today. Someone who i have known for a number of years. I should mention right off the bat, i see her quite regularly. She is on the board of advisors of the International Spy museum. And she and her husband, tony, whom many of you know from his fame in particular from argo. Tony could not be with us today but we are delighted to have jonna. Jonna began her career overseas in germany where she was working and was recruited by cia. In 1966. At that time they brought air into she became a technical operations officer. Tech ops, technical operations officers, often are crosstrained in a variety of things. In jonnas case she was trained in disguise, identity transformation, and clandestine imaging. I will let her explain that if any of you are interested in that. But her really top specialties were photography and disguise. She was assigned in the mid1980s, 1986 to what in the agency recall denied area we call denied area operations
Relative. We really appreciate, of course a longtime supporter of Young Americas Foundation and also i wanted to mr. Rodriguez come let you know although a lot of people wear those tshirts, when i was in college my mother sent me an antisheikh of our tshirt that i readily wore to my latin american studies course. You can imagine how well that went over. Specifically after i wore it particularly when they would start, you know, boosting him. That was in the lesson plan so it was great. I want to start off to get a to start off today the first thanking America Foundation for of course having here today. When they say i was inspired to do what im doing now, thats a result of attending a conference here in 2008. Its true. Young Americas Foundation with this change the lives of students especially when theyre constantly and hostile environment on the College Campuses. What Young Americas Foundation provides in terms of tools and mentorship for people is extremely fortunate i can say the wor
Testify. And why does Governor Northam keep talking . He is now in hot water again for equating slavery with endenchtuendenctured servitude. Also known as slavery. Yes. Martha yeah. Lots to get to tonight. Including an exclusive with Chris Christie who is in the house, hot off the release of his explosive book about the trump campaign. So how does he see this huge democrat race shaping up and President Trumps chances. Hes going to be here in a minute. First, judge Andrew Napolitano on where virginias governor goes from here. He wants an fbi investigation. The fbi can only investigate a federal crime or a material breach of national security. Thats not the case here. Lieutenant governor, we looked at this and we didnt think you committed a crime. He also cannot be impeached because of the virginia constitution sets forth very explicitly that highranking government officials, and hes listed in the naming, can only be impeached for misbehavior in office. The statute of limitations on Sexu