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Joined February 2014

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  1. Feb 28

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

  2. Feb 28

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

  3. Feb 26

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

  4. Feb 26

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

  5. Feb 25

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

  6. Feb 24

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

  7. Feb 24

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

  8. Feb 22

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

  9. Feb 22

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

  10. Feb 22

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

  11. Feb 22

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

  12. Feb 22

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

  13. Feb 22

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

  14. 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.

  15. Feb 22

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

  16. Feb 22

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

  17. Feb 21

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

  18. Feb 21

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

  19. Feb 17

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

  20. Feb 17

    Most rewarding aspect of Brian’s work: using “language skills to fill collection gaps & answer intel Qs that would not have been answered.”

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