Washington (CNN) The Central Intelligence Agency has taken to Twitter as it makes the hard sell for Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's pick to be the next director, to be confirmed.

The CIA account sent out 15 tweets in a thread on Friday that included details about her upbringing in Ashland, Kentucky, in a military family, her career around the world and even a new photo of Haspel -- one of the few currently published online. The agency pointed out that Haspel is the first woman to "rise from the ranks" of the agency to become deputy director of CIA. Avril Haines, the first woman to hold the position, did not come from within the agency.

Gina Haspel joined CIA in the waning days of the Cold War & for the past three decades she has quietly devoted herself to serving on the front lines of our mission.https://t.co/DkksXW2Ue8 pic.twitter.com/MV3P9cIxJQ — CIA (@CIA) March 23, 2018

Although she hasn't yet been officially nominated, as there's no job to fill until current Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as the next secretary of state, Trump announced Haspel as his choice via Twitter last Tuesday.

If confirmed, Haspel would become the first female director of the CIA and one of the few career intelligence officers to lift the veil and enter the public sphere after decades overseas conducting operations secretly. Therefore, the agency is responsible for working with her to publish the details it can without risking classified operations -- a process others nominated for director have not had to go through in recent years.

Following Trump's tweet, the agency has worked to quickly declassify bits and pieces about her career and personal life, passing them on to journalists, congressional overseers and, now, the public at large following the agency on social media: more than 2 million people on Twitter. Those details were largely the same as the ones delivered to Congress on Thursday, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and later CNN

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