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  1. 3 hours ago

    CIA Artifact of the Week: Escape & Evasion Survival Kit

    109 replies 106 retweets 247 likes
  2. Feb 28

    This compact, high-frequency, paramilitary transceiver enabled communications with field agents operating behind enemy lines.

    427 replies 155 retweets 298 likes
  3. Feb 28

    CIA Artifact of the Week: TAR-224 Used in Vietnam & during Operation EAGLE CLAW.

    54 replies 112 retweets 250 likes
  4. Feb 26

    ICYMI: What's it like to work in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations? Interns discuss their experiences:

    144 replies 114 retweets 234 likes
  5. Feb 26

    ICYMI: CIA Artifact of the Week: Pointy-Talky Language Chart English-Dari (spoken in northern Afghanistan)

    37 replies 100 retweets 243 likes
  6. Feb 25

    ICYMI: In honor of , we are recognizing African American Trailblazer Omego Ware:

    113 replies 105 retweets 262 likes
  7. Feb 24

    You’ve read their stories. Now apply to become a DO intern. Applications close March 15th!

    35 replies 100 retweets 170 likes
  8. Feb 24

    Curious what it’s like to work in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations? Interns discuss their experience:

    53 replies 135 retweets 241 likes
  9. Feb 22

    Dubbed “Jackie Robinson of Intel,” Omego is one of the original CIA Trailblazers whose actions shaped CIA’s history

    52 replies 82 retweets 183 likes
  10. Feb 22

    Omego’s final Agency assignment was as Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence. He retired from CIA in 1982.

    15 replies 59 retweets 152 likes
  11. Feb 22

    Omego became the first African American member of CIA’s Executive Committee & a charter member of the Senior Intelligence Service.

    7 replies 65 retweets 128 likes
  12. Feb 22

    Omego taught Agency leaders that having CIA teams that mirrored people & cultures of US & world was essential to carrying out our mission.

    6 replies 65 retweets 120 likes
  13. Feb 22

    Under Omego’s leadership, CIA began first significant efforts to increase presence of minorities & women in analytic, ops & tech ranks.

    4 replies 56 retweets 107 likes
  14. Feb 22

    In 1975, DCI Colby asked Omego to create & lead CIA’s first independent Office of Equal Employment Opportunity (OEEO).

    10 replies 51 retweets 92 likes
  15. Feb 22

    Omego joined CIA in October 1955. At the Agency, as in the military, he was usually the first African American in each of his assignments.

    4 replies 55 retweets 97 likes
  16. Feb 22

    Omego grew up in Washington, DC in the 1930s & joined the in the 1940s, becoming an Infantry Intel & Recon Chief.

    7 replies 52 retweets 111 likes
  17. Feb 22

    In honor of , we are recognizing African American Trailblazer Omego Ware:

    27 replies 304 retweets 577 likes
  18. Feb 21

    Americans not fluent in Dari could communicate by speaking or pointing to words printed on the chart.

    68 replies 81 retweets 202 likes
  19. Feb 21

    CIA Artifact of the Week: Pointy-Talky Language Chart English-Dari (spoken in northern Afghanistan)

    28 replies 94 retweets 253 likes
  20. Feb 17

    Interested in using your language skills at the CIA? Check out these language-professional employment opportunities:

    123 replies 136 retweets 201 likes

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