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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
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Mendez refers listeners to her own book twice, for the scale of CIA training and for a closing story about an operational base in Afghanistan.
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- Mendez's own memoir, pointed to twice during the episode
- Written by the CIA's former chief of disguise
- Ends on the women she served alongside in Afghanistan
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- The Mel Robbins PodcastFormer CIA Spy: How To Build Unshakable Confidence, Eliminate Self-Doubt, and Reinvent YourselfAug 17, 2026GuestSAID “Her book”
“If you read my book, you'll say, my god, were you ever not in training?”
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