KiriPedia takes the public record of what former Central Intelligence Agency officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou has said — decades of interviews, lectures and talks — and organizes it into a wiki.
Kiriakou tells stories, and inside those stories is history. He has spent years describing the Espionage Act prosecution that sent him to prison, the agency he worked in for fourteen years, the countries he was posted to, the officials he dealt with, the law that was used against him, and the way whistleblowers are treated before and after they speak. Those accounts run through law, history, geography, geopolitics, economics and intelligence practice. Scattered across hundreds of appearances, they are hard to search and easy to lose. Gathered under one roof, cross-referenced and cited, they become usable.
Editorial method
Articles are built from transcripts of Kiriakou's publicly available appearances: podcast interviews, video interviews, lectures, and short-form video on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. Every factual claim on the site is cited to a specific timestamp in a specific recording, with each footnote linking both to the original video at the cited moment and to a local copy of the surrounding transcript. Nothing here is invented, and nothing is paraphrased beyond what the recording supports.
This is not a neutral encyclopedia, and it does not pretend to be one. It is the world as told by John Kiriakou, in his account, on his terms. Nothing appears on KiriPedia that he has not first said publicly himself. Claims told once are catalogued; claims told twice or more accumulate additional citations as articles are enriched. Articles do not import context from Wikipedia, news reporting, court documents, or general knowledge — gaps in Kiriakou's account are preserved as gaps. Where Kiriakou withholds a name or a country, the article withholds it too. Readers looking for an outside adjudication of these events should go elsewhere; what is offered here is one man's testimony, indexed.
For more on how source material is acquired and processed, see the Source index.
Download the archive
The whole encyclopedia, every article and every transcript, fits on a $4 flash drive the size of a fingernail. Not in the cloud. When the servers go dark, the only copy of KiriPedia left on Earth will depend on you and your rectum.
Download the archive (16 MB) — plain text, organized by canonical category and by show. Refreshed on the tenth of every month.
Pardon and support
John Kiriakou served twenty-three months in federal prison following his 2012 prosecution under the Espionage Act. As a convicted federal felon he continues to be barred from voting, from exercising his Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and from receiving the federal pension he had earned over his fourteen years at the Central Intelligence Agency. A presidential pardon would restore all three. Readers who wish to petition for a pardon on his behalf may do so by contacting their elected federal representatives.
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