John Kiriakou

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.

So I went back to the office.

My boss said, how'd it go?

I said, I'm so angry right now I could explode.

I said, he practically pitched me right there in the meeting and asked if I was Jewish.

And he laughed and he said, they've done that to every single one of us.

On my very first day at the CIA, where you put your hand up in the air and you swear to uphold and protect the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, we had a briefing by the CIA's director of security.

And he told us that there are two intelligence representatives at the Israeli embassy, one from Mossad, one from Shin Bet.

He said, but the FBI has been able to identify 187 other undeclared Israeli intelligence officers spread out all across America, working to steal secrets from American defense contractors.

But politically speaking,

The relationship is so close that you don't want to rock the boat and, you know, start arresting people spying for Israel.

Look at Jonathan Pollard.

He does every day of a 30 year sentence and then is welcomed like some kind of a conquering hero at the American embassy in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem made me sick to my stomach.