jonna mendez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it's great to have you here. what do you think are the qualities you possess that made you a good spy? no—one�*s asked me that before. um... i'm tenacious, i'm a... ..a bit adventurous. that's how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day—to—day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican... ican... i can prevaricate with the best of them. let me take you back to the beginning. you've described entering the cia through a side entrance, by which i think you mean that you weren't sort of formally recruited. that's right. you sort of fell into it because you married a guy who, it turned out, just before your wedding, you learned was in the cia. wasn't there a movie or a book? something titled marrying the mob? there was a similarity, yeah. i didn't re

jonna mendez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it's great to have you here.d me that before. um... i'm tenacious, i'm a... ..a bit adventurous. that's how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you,

jonna mendez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it's great to have you here.

jonna mendez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it�*s great to have you here. adventurous. that�*s how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you,

jonna mendez, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it's great to have you here.adventurous. that's how i got into it to begin with.