John Kiriakou

And he said, we don't speak to the Israelis in the building.

They're not permitted in the

Every time they would come to CIA headquarters, they would bring gifts.

And the gifts were always laden with listening devices and batteries.

And, you know, we would X-ray everything and we would tell them, stop trying to bug our conference rooms.

And they would say, oh, OK, OK, you caught us.

OK.

So finally, we said they just can't come in anymore.

So we have a safe house where we meet with the Israelis.

So it was like eight of us.

the senior Iraq analyst, the military analyst, the political analyst, the econ analyst, the oil analyst, everybody's doing their thing.

And because I was the most junior, I went last.

And

I said, because I was an overt employee, my name is John Kiriakou, and I'm going to brief you today on Saddam Hussein's state of mind.

And the Mossad representative looked over his glasses at me and he said, spell your name.

So I spelled it.

And he says to me, in front of everybody, he says, you are Jewish?

And I said, I am not recruitable.

Don't even think about trying to recruit me.

Shame on you.