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On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the socially-distanced NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest is Jonna Mendez, who not only worked for the CIA, but was Chief of Disguise. Her conversation with host Peter Sagal is really very interesting and wonderful fun, as she describes how she got into the CIA and the details of her job.  Well…some of the details, which she compares in part to the “Q” division of the James Bond movies.  Only later in the interview does host Sagal mention that her husband (now deceased) was Tony Mendez – who was the real-life person played by Ben Affleck in Argo.  She tells a remarkable story about one of his disguises that she helped with, and also Halloween costumes for the family.