John Kiriakou

I did that, and I worked for a sociopath, and I called him on it.

And so I got my paper back at the end of the week and I got an A and Dr. Post wrote in the margin, please see me after class.

So I went to his office to see him.

He had me close the door.

And then he said, look, I'm not really a professor here.

I'm a CIA officer undercover as a professor here.

I'm looking for people who might fit into the CIA's culture.

And I think you would fit into the CIA's culture.

Would you like to be a CIA officer?

And the truth is, you know, I wanted to go into public service.

I wanted to see the world.

But the real truth was I was getting married in six weeks and I didn't have a job.

So I said, yeah, sure.

I'd love to join the CIA.

And the next thing I knew, I was in the CIA.

That was the start of it, yes.

It turned out that I was hired by the office that he had created about six years earlier called the Political Psychology Division.

So I was assigned to Iraq.

I became Saddam Hussein's classified biographer.

And I did that for years before making what at the time was a very unusual switch to counterterrorism operations.