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Joe Procaccino and Hugh Montgomery served under General Donovan, the director of the Office of Strategic Services, and 20 subsequent CIA Directors. Both entered the world of #intelligence on the strength of their foreign #language skills.
Joe was born in Italy and graduated with a major in #linguistics. He joined the OSS and continued on after the establishment of the CIA. Former Director George Tenet described Joe as “The Father of All Reports Officers” because he pioneered many procedures still in use today.
Hugh followed in his mother’s linguistic footsteps and learned eight languages fluently. He spent 24 years serving CIA overseas. In Moscow, Hugh was involved in handling the agent who many believe was the most valuable Russian asset ever run by the Agency, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky.
Both Joe and Hugh received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal along with several other prestigious awards.

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Meet Molly Hale. She’s been the CIA’s public voice since 2002, responding to faxes, phone calls, emails, & snail mail sent to the Agency.

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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
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
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Today we released the 6th & final set of declassified daily intelligence reports President Harry Truman received from CIA & our predecessor organization, the Central Intelligence Group, between 1946 & 1951.

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Today’s release totals 723 pages of Daily Summary reports from 1950-51—a time that saw war come to the divided Korean Peninsula.
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formation of the CIA.) puritans.net/news/cia122302…
In fact, almost all the heads and major ranking officers of the CIA have

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Transcript of Whistleblowing Panel censored by @OxfordUnion.

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The following thread is the text linked above. We'd like the @OxfordUnion to clarify why it censored the panel as the so called last bastion of free speech. /1
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