John Kiriakou

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6,255 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5 Jun

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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · #661 - John Kiriakou · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

It's actively encouraged.

I had a station chief one time who gave me the biggest compliment.

You had a what one time?

A station chief.

Okay.

So I was doing an operation in the Middle East, but I was doing it from headquarters.

The station chief called me.

We were friends from our training days.

And he said, listen, we recruited a double agent out here.

He's insisting on meeting with the chief, but it's just too dangerous for me to meet with him.

Cause he doesn't know that we know he's working for the bad guys.

Got it.

Can you come out here every month and meet with him and pretend to be me?

And I said, sure.

So I did to make a long story short, I would do the meeting and then go straight to the airport and fly back to Washington.

There was a midnight flight.

And, um,

I would write the cable, the reporting cable from headquarters instead of writing it from the station and then sending it to headquarters.

I'd write it from headquarters and send it to the station.

And the great compliment he gave me was he said, your memory is so good.

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