John Kiriakou
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And while he's walking his dog, I want to walk your dog.
And then I meet him and I'm going to say hello.
And then the next day I'm going to say hello again.
Then the third day I'm going to invite him to lunch and whatever.
It was the best recruitment I ever made in my entire career.
And we bonded over the dogs and it wasn't even my dog.
At the end of the week, I just gave her a dog back.
And did you learn something from the guy?
This guy was like every case officer's dream recruitment coach.
The person, you pitch him, you say, look, I'm with the CIA.
Oh, you told him that?
Oh, yeah, I'm with the CIA.
And I'm willing to pay you very handsomely to give it to me.
And he's like, how handsome?
And I gave him a number.
well, this is 25 years ago and then it was $5,000 a month.