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the free encyclopedia of the world as told by John Kiriakou, the CIA officer who exposed the agency's torture program and went to prison for it. Everything here comes from his own recorded interviews, and every claim links to the moment he said it.
2,132 articles (443 people, 68 organizations, 92 places, 23 programs, 88 procedures, 409 events), anchored to 30,763 cited timestamps across 934 source recordings totaling 759 hours of transcribed video and 1,836,579 words written.
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Barry Eisler. Former CIA officer turned bestselling novelist, and a recurring guest of John Kiriakou's, who describes him as one of the very few former intelligence officers to have succeeded at storytelling outside the secret world as thoroughly as he did inside it. (Full article…)
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Did you know …
- … that the worked example in John Kiriakou's rules for prison survival is how to get hold of metal binder clips, which are contraband inside FCI Loretto?
- … that the CIA learned the true identity of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed only when Abu Zubaydah laughed at FBI interrogator Ali Soufan's ignorance of him at a CIA black site — "You don't know who Mukhtar is? He's Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."?
- … that after John Kiriakou's 2012 arrest, the Greek ambassador granted him and all five of his children Greek citizenship on the spot, skipping the normal three-year process, on the strength of Kiriakou's status in Greece as a national hero?
- … that John Kiriakou says the real reason he wanted to join the CIA was not public service but the pin map in his childhood radio shack, "I just wanted to see the world and I knew that I otherwise didn't have the money to do it"?
- … that Jesselyn Radack spent 2012 lobbying CNN and MSNBC over a single noun — and that Fox, in John Kiriakou's telling, had been using the right one all along?
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