How I, the CIA's disguise division chief shocked the President… by peeling off MY face.

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At the height of the Cold War, Jonna Mendez was chief of the CIA's disguise division – a branch of the agency charged with outfitting secret agents operating abroad.

By 1991, the department was developing remarkably life-like latex masks and Mendez was eager to deploy their sophisticated new spy technology where it was needed the most – Soviet Russia.

But first, Mendez needed to prove her deceits would work under the most perilous conditions.

So, she arranged the ultimate test.

Could she fool White House security and the President of the United States himself?

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Jonna Mendez met President H.W. Bush in the Oval Office, wearing one of the disguise department's most sophisticated face masks:



After Jonna removed the mask, the president's eyes were almost sparkling as he asked questions



The 'Becky' mask that fooled the President - and White House security:

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This was in 1991. Do you think the masking technology is a little better today? Probably. Do you think it being used on our "enemies" only? Probably not. On U.S. citizens? Probably.