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Brazil has the largest population of all the countries playing in the
#WorldCup Quarter-Finals (they have the 5th largest population in the entire world) & their official language is Portuguese. http://bit.ly/2m1QQEt#CIAWORLDFACTBOOK#BRA#BRABELpic.twitter.com/dVq7GE1wbmShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
The Belgium Red Devils have appeared in 13 of 21
#WorldCup tournaments, but have yet to win. They did come in fourth in 1986. http://bit.ly/2KB3R6S (PDF)#CIAWORLDFACTBOOK#BELpic.twitter.com/8cF9dkDwKiShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Congrats to the 2018
#WorldCup Quarter Finalists! Follow along during the games as we “pass” along some fun facts out of our#CIAWorldFactBook about each country. Check out our#WorldCup special one pagers found under each competing country’s Introduction: http://1.usa.gov/1pR2mzT pic.twitter.com/HGvrRejocLShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
The very first
#WorldCup was held in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. They won that championship & again in 1950. http://bit.ly/2IZ6GsF (PDF)#CIAWORLDFACTBOOK#URUpic.twitter.com/U5mu3E0DhFShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Of the European countries playing in the
#WorldCup Quarter-Finals France has the largest population & it has five oversea regions: French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, & Reunion. http://bit.ly/2IVvIJp#CIAWORLDFACTBOOK#FRApic.twitter.com/9UWrPlq9iIShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Competing 15 times since the first
#WorldCup in 1930, France’s first, & so far only, win came in 1998. http://bit.ly/2NwDe0K (PDF)#CIAWORLDFACTBOOK#FRAShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
-Most of Uruguay's population resides in the southern half of the country -approximately 80% of the populace is urban, living in towns or cities -nearly half of the population lives in & around the capital of Montevideo http://bit.ly/2tYt5BH
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Congrats to the 2018
#WorldCup Quarter Finalists! Follow along during the games as we “pass” along some fun facts out of our#CIAWorldFactBook about each country. Check out our#WorldCup special one pagers found under each competing country’s Introduction: http://1.usa.gov/1pR2mzT pic.twitter.com/e9YVY7jRE9Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
If you have a background in Psychology, there are a number of rewarding career opportunities for you at CIA! For more information or to apply: http://bit.ly/2th86ZK http://bit.ly/2w93K7l https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itOwyH5Lf8I …
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Happy
#IndependenceDay America, from the women & men silently serving around the globepic.twitter.com/22AvM9oRcDThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
In the late 1990s, a US petroleum company restored Glomar & used it for actual deep-sea oil drilling and exploration. Project AZORIAN remains an engineering marvel, greatly advancing deep-ocean mining and heavy-lift technology. http://1.usa.gov/XPudp7 pic.twitter.com/ZLTOnSr1Sd
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Among the contents in the recovered section of K-129 were the bodies of six Soviet submariners. They were given formal military burial at sea & DCI Robert Gates presented a film of the burial ceremony to Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992.https://youtu.be/aJAJUJ41PBI
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During the lift, when the sub was a third of the way up, it broke apart, & a section plunged back to the ocean bottom. Much of what was retrieved is still classified; however 2 nuclear torpedoes were found in the recovered part of the Soviet sub.
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July 31, 1974: Clementine touched down on the ocean floor, sending up a cloud of mud that obscured visibility for half an hour. Aug. 1, 1974: Clementine & a 132-foot sub hull section, weighing as much as a WWII-era destroyer, began a more than 3-mile ascent.pic.twitter.com/WBSGSzvOB8
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Sailing from Long Beach, CA, the Glomar Explorer arrived over the recovery site on Independence Day, 4 July 1974 & conducted salvage operations for more than two months under total secrecy—despite much of the time being monitored by nearby Soviet ships curious about its mission.
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Glomar would conduct entire recovery under water with specially built capture vehicle, Clementine, in complete secrecy. Clementine would be positioned to straddle the sub, & its powerful jaws would grab the sub’s hull.pic.twitter.com/lPgzJiyvry
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The cover story: Glomar Explorer, a commercial deep-sea mining vessel "built" & "owned" by billionaire Howard Hughes was conducting marine research at extreme ocean depths & mining manganese nodules.pic.twitter.com/lPLuSghtlM
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CIA’s mission: recover the 1,750-ton, 132-foot-long wrecked sub from more than 3 miles below the ocean surface… in total secrecy. 1970: CIA engineers & contractors concluded the only solution was to use a large mechanical claw to grab the sub & lift it.
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March 1968: Soviet sub K-129, armed with nuclear ballistic missiles, sinks. May 1968: US located sub about 1,500 miles NW of Hawaii. Recognizing the value of the intel on Soviet strategic capabilities that would be gained if the sub were recovered, CIA agreed to lead recovery.pic.twitter.com/W68l4f7AIh
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#Museum AotW: Flag that Flew Above the Glomar Explorer This flag would have witnessed the stand-off of 3 Soviet vessels encircling the Glomar Explorer as they tried to discern why the American ship was anchored in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. http://1.usa.gov/XPudp7 pic.twitter.com/zqaObhSUhmShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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