John Kiriakou
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A foolproof guide both to lying and to detecting deception, The CIA Guide to Lying and Lie Detection will teach you how the pros can tell if and when somebody is lying.
People lie all the time. Studies show that the average American lies between six and twenty times a day. Most lies are of the "little white" variety or are meant to spare a person's feelings. But what about the big lies? What about the consequential ones? You have a right to know...
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On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on Al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like A Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison...
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Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow or observe someone and not be seen?
In the world of espionage, surveillance and surveillance detection are a way of life. It is the job of every CIA operations officer to make sure he or she is not under surveillance-that is, being followed to the commission of an "operational act." It is also the job of every CIA operations officer to surveil his own targets,...
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With an experienced CIA officer as your teacher, you'll gain the knowledge and necessary tools to protect yourself and the ones you love.
No matter where we go, we leave tracks and cues of our existence without even knowing. Our electronic footprint becomes our invisible trail. In this day in age where the world seems to be at our fingertips and social media plays a huge role in our daily lives, it's hard not to leave part of our digital selves for...
5) The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
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A startling spotlight on the darkest corners of America's "War on Terror," where nothing is quite what it seems.
The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first "high-value target" captured by the CIA after 9/11. But was Abu Zubaydah, who is still being indefinitely held by the United States under shadowy circumstances, the blue-ribbon capture that the Bush White House claimed...
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Why are the United States and Iran always at odds? How can two strong former allies become such mortal enemies? What does the future hold for US-Iran relations, and how will it affect the Middle East?
In The CIA Guide to Iran, former CIA Officer John C. Kiriakou explores one of the most intractable and difficult problems in American foreign policy. This book looks at the political and social history of Iran, its strategic importance to the Soviet...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010
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xxi, 192 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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In The Reluctant Spy, Kiriakou takes readers into the fight against an enemy fueled by fanaticism. He chillingly describes what it was like inside the CIA headquarters on the morning of 9/11, the agency leaders who stepped up and those who protected their careers. And in what may be the book's most shocking revelation, he describes how the White House made plans to invade Iraq a full year before the CIA knew about it--or could attempt to stop it.