Category: Agencies

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CIA National Resources Division — The Central Intelligence Agency's domestic intelligence-collection arm, created in the 1980s by Director William J. Casey
CIA Political Psychology Division — The Central Intelligence Agency unit founded by Dr. Gerald Post in the 1970s to produce long-distance psychiatric evaluations of foreign leaders
Central Intelligence Agency — U.S. foreign intelligence service; John Kiriakou's employer from 1990 to 2004 and the central institution of KiriPedia
French intelligence (DGSE) — The French foreign intelligence service; characterized as exceptionally talented, exceptionally aggressive, and routinely lethal in the conduct of its operations
AIPAC — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee — the U.S. political organization that, in John Kiriakou's framing, ought to be registered as a foreign-lobbying entity but is not, and that wields decisive electoral power against U.S. elected officials who express support for Palestinian human rights.
The Analysis Corporation — Arlington, Virginia–based private intelligence firm; one of two companion entities (alongside Arrais Corporation) created as LLC pass-throughs for retired Senior Intelligence Service personnel; John Brennan was appointed its CEO in 2005.
Arrais Corporation — Private intelligence firm; companion entity to The Analysis Corporation; originally an LLC pass-through for retired Senior Intelligence Service personnel from the CIA's operations side; subsequently acquired by IBM for over $1 billion.
Blackwater — The private military contractor founded by Erik Prince that ran the CIA's Global Response Staff and, until shut down by Leon Panetta, a global assassination program; staffed at the board level with former CIA officers including Cofer Black as Vice President.
Ground Branch — The land-operating component of the CIA's Special Activities Division; the unit whose secrecy and personnel composition — predominantly former SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force operators on secondment to the agency — gave the 2025 Dalton Fischer Podcast episode its subtitle, "The Most Secret CIA Unit."
In-Q-Tel — The CIA's openly acknowledged venture capital arm; provided Palantir Technologies its first $1.5 million in seed funding; in John Kiriakou's account the principal vehicle by which the agency finances private-sector development of technologies it intends to use.
Mossad — Israel's primary external intelligence service; characterized by John Kiriakou as universally hostile in his and his CIA colleagues' professional dealings with it ("never had a positive encounter with Mossad"); operates almost exclusively in the operational rather than analytical domain; the CIA is, per Kiriakou, categorically forbidden from spying on it.
National Endowment for Democracy — U.S. federally chartered organization characterized by John Kiriakou as a proxy for CIA propaganda — the funding vehicle by which the agency promotes pro-U.S. political leaders in foreign countries; explicitly not an operational entity in the boots-on-the-ground sense.
Special Activities Division — The CIA's paramilitary arm; described by John Kiriakou as having two organizationally distinct components — the pre-9/11 SAD, a covert-action division within the Directorate of Operations, and a post-9/11 special activities group within the Counterterrorism Center, staffed largely by personnel on secondment from Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, and other special-operations units.
Black Cube — Israeli private intelligence firm staffed by former Mossad personnel; reportedly used by attorney David Boies in the Jeffrey Epstein litigation; named by John Kiriakou as a representative of the no-compunction operating posture characteristic of Israeli private and public intelligence.