Does the CIA Run The World? | John Kiriakou | Bidon Waraq Podcast
John Kiriakou, a former officer at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and a member of the team involved in tracking Al-Qaeda after the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
How does the CIA recruit its agents?
And how does it recruit local spies in different countries?
Was the United States aware of the September 11 events in advance?
John Kiriakou shared the beginnings of his CIA career and his
specialization in analyzing Iraq’s internal situation before moving to
the field operations division. Due to his mastery of Arabic, he spent
his career moving between Greece and Bahrain, and later Pakistan, where
he led the team tracking Al-Qaeda, which culminated in the capture of
Abu Zubaydah, who remains detained in Guantanamo.
Kiriakou resigned in 2004, and due to leaking information described as
classified regarding systematic CIA torture methods, he served two years
in prison.
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