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 r

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