John Kiriakou

Wow.

We can put your son or daughter in any university in America, and if you give me two hours in your code room, I'll pay for it.

Wow.

That's that naked.

Yeah.

Nine times out of ten, this is strictly a financial agreement.

You give me money, I'm sorry, you give me information, I give you money.

It's as simple as that.

Can you talk to me about when you were posted to Athens in Greece and what you were doing there?

Sure, that was very specifically a counterterrorism position.

There were several groups, you know, it's funny, when I first saw the position was open,

It said this was for a counterterrorism operations officer working against two Greek groups, one called Revolutionary Organization 17 November, the other called Popular Revolutionary Struggle, but also working against Arab groups, most specifically the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the PFLP General Command, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Palestine, as well as the Abu Nidal organization and the Libyans.

They said that the successful candidate will have either Greek or Arabic language fluency.

As it turned out, I was the only person in the CIA that was fluent in both Greek and Arabic.

And so I got the job.

It was just about then that communist Arab terrorism went away.

It just, the PFLP and the DFLP and Abu Didal, they don't exist anymore.

These were old men.

They retired.