Summary of Antonio J. Mendez's The Master of Disguise

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#1 The Blue Ridge Mountains, Maryland, August 21, 1997. I was waiting anxiously on the concrete observation deck of the sweltering airport terminal, peering down at the tarmac through a thickening haze. The TWA flight from Bangkok was two hours late. I had to make sure that the subject and his CIA escort officer Jacob safely boarded the plane.

#2 I have considered myself an artist since childhood. I have also seen myself as a competent spy since 1990, when I retired after a twenty-five-year espionage career in the CIA. In 1997, I was living a normal life with my wife, Jonna, and our four-year-old son, Jesse.

#3 I had been selected as a CIA Trailblazer, and I was honored by the Agency with a bronze Intelligence Star. I had been destined from childhood for a career in the shadow world of espionage.

#4 I was born in Eureka, Nevada, in 1940. My father, John G. Mendez, was hired at the Kimberly copper mine in 1943, and he died three weeks before my third birthday. My grandparents, Joseph R. Tognoni and Ina Bell Cates, eloped in Goldfield in 1916.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822534964

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Insights on Antonio J. Mendez's The Master of Disguise

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Blue Ridge Mountains, Maryland, August 21, 1997. I was waiting anxiously on the concrete observation deck of the sweltering airport terminal, peering down at the tarmac through a thickening haze. The TWA flight from Bangkok was two hours late. I had to make sure that the subject and his CIA escort officer Jacob safely boarded the plane.

#2

I have considered myself an artist since childhood. I have also seen myself as a competent spy since 1990, when I retired after a twenty-five-year espionage career in the CIA. In 1997, I was living a normal life with my wife, Jonna, and our four-year-old son, Jesse.

#3

I had been selected as a CIA Trailblazer, and I was honored by the Agency with a bronze Intelligence Star. I had been destined from childhood for a career in the shadow world of espionage.

#4

I was born in Eureka, Nevada, in 1940. My father, John G. Mendez, was hired at the Kimberly copper mine in 1943, and he died three weeks before my third birthday. My grandparents, Joseph R. Tognoni and Ina Bell Cates, eloped in Goldfield in 1916.

#5

My grandfather, J. C. had sold some of his Goldfield claims in 1904, and had turned his prospector’s eye to a likely spot at Black Rock Summit in the Pancake Range. He found a rich vein of reddish ruby ore and named the claim Silverton. However, the banks eventually gave him an ultimatum: he could choose between foreclosure on the ranch or on the mine. He chose to save the mine.

#6

I began to draw in 1948, when I was living in Sparks with my family. I would draw the family’s journey from Eureka to Caliente, as well as the progress of the new house. I learned my first lessons in surveillance evasion by leading the kids away from our caves.

#7

I had a fascination with the magic of deception as a child, and I loved selling papers on my route. I would often sell papers to the girls at Cherry Hill, who would have curlers in their hair and were just finishing their late-afternoon breakfast before going to work.

#8

I fell in with a group of boys who shared my interest in art. We worshiped Marlon Brando and his gang in The