John Kiriakou
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6,255 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jun
John Kiriakou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The next thing you know, we're doing Iran-Contra and we're bombing different countries and everything just went back to the way it was.
But there was like this golden period
My friends are going to yell at me for saying that.
There was this period where the CIA was a really awesome place to work.
Got it.
Oh, sure.
The first seven and a half years that I was there, I was an analyst.
Actually, in the office that Dr. Post had founded, the political psychology division.
And I really felt like I was a part of something big.
I was only on the job eight months.
And it was just as I started to feel like I really knew what I was doing.
I was the leadership analyst, the psychological analyst on Iraq.
And the reason I was given Iraq was because, not my words, these were the words of my leadership,
Nothing ever happens there.
It's the same cabinet since the 1968 revolution.
Nothing ever happens.
So learn the writing style, learn the tradecraft, and you can move on to something interesting like Romania, they told me.
I said, great.
It's a great place, Romania.
So just as I get to the point where I really feel like I know what I'm doing, Iraq invades Kuwait.
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