About this episode

John Kiriakou discusses his experiences as a CIA officer and the implications of his whistleblowing on the agency's practices.

WATCH FULL EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_FDZozJ9zE&t=0s Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT John Kiriakou is a former CIA senior counterterrorism officer and the agency's chief of counterterrorism in the Middle East. He was the first and only CIA officer ever imprisoned for leaks — spending 23 months in federal prison after blowing the whistle on the CIA's torture and waterboarding program. He is a journalist author and host of Deep Focus. In this segment he sits down with Julian Dorey for the most personally revealing and most operationally specific CIA conversation in the series — covering the Rudy Giuliani beef story and the impenetrable TSA door, the job offer of a lifetime and the FBI's counter intelligence embarrassment, what attending the CIA Farm was actually like, what it felt like to enjoy being a CIA spy and work assets, spy craft school and the disguise story, the prison experience and making assets on the inside, and the first wife and the specific difficulty of being in a relationship with a CIA officer who could not tell…

People in this episode

Host: Julian Dorey

Guest: John Kiriakou

Topics covered

• CIA
• whistleblowing
• counterterrorism
• spy craft
• prison experience
• politics

Keywords

• CIA
• John Kiriakou
• whistleblower
• counterterrorism
• spy craft
• Rudy Giuliani
• prison
• torture
• waterboarding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CIA, FBI, Deep Focus

Places: Virginia, CIA Farm

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