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[THREAD,1/9] Ocean heat content (0-2000m) data from IAP and NOAA/NCEI was just released, NO surprise, 2019 was the warmest year on record for global ocean. Not only that, the past 5/10 years are the warmest 5/10 years! [link.springer.com/article/10.100…] 
[2/9] OHC is one of the key measure of global warming. Human activities emit greenhouse gases (i.e. CO2) into the air, which taps more and more heat in the climate system. Ocean stores more than 90% of the global warming heat!
[3/9] A updated ocean energy budget from 0m to ocean bottom shows a total full-depth ocean warming of 370 ± 81 ZJ (~0.38 ± 0.08 W m^−2) from 1960 to 2019, with contributions of 41.0%, 21.5%, 28.6% and 8.9% from the 0–300, 300–700, 700–2000m, and below-2000m layers, respectively
Tony Mendez is best known for the 1980 #Argo operation to free US hostages in Iran, but as head of CIA’s disguise branch, he was also the architect of an “experiment in deception & illusion” that became the foundation of an operational mindset known as “#MoscowRules.”
Via @WSJ
Via @WSJ
Tony arrived in Moscow in the late 1970s w/ “some unusual cargo: enough masks, wigs, dental facades, prosthetics, makeup palettes & made-to-measure costumes to put on a magic show. If the CIA wanted to operate freely in Moscow, its agents had to disappear.” Via @WSJ
#MoscowRules
#MoscowRules
“By learning to outfox the KGB, the [CIA’s] Moscow station not only connected with #TRIGON, it scored some the biggest espionage coups in American history.” Via @WSJ
To learn more about TRIGON: 1.usa.gov/28Jp87E
To learn more about Tony Mendez: bit.ly/2CHzVz5
To learn more about TRIGON: 1.usa.gov/28Jp87E
To learn more about Tony Mendez: bit.ly/2CHzVz5
This weekend we lost one of our most legendary Agency officers, Antonio “Tony” Mendez, the inspiration behind the Hollywood blockbuster #Argo.
In honor of his legacy, we are sharing this painting of Tony & the Argo mission from CIA’s Fine Art Collection.
bit.ly/2CHzVz5
In honor of his legacy, we are sharing this painting of Tony & the Argo mission from CIA’s Fine Art Collection.
bit.ly/2CHzVz5
The painting titled, “#ARGO: The Rescue of the Canadian Six” was painted by CIA DS&T officer, Deborah Dismuke.
Deborah was both the first female & the first Agency officer to have artwork displayed in CIA’s Intelligence Art Gallery.
Deborah was both the first female & the first Agency officer to have artwork displayed in CIA’s Intelligence Art Gallery.
Tony began his CIA career in 1965 & spent 25 years as a document counterfeiter & disguise maker.
During the Cold War, he painstakingly devised critical deception operations in places like SE Asia & the former Soviet Union.
During the Cold War, he painstakingly devised critical deception operations in places like SE Asia & the former Soviet Union.
