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Category: Organizations

20 articles in this category

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Five Eyes — The intelligence-sharing partnership of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
  • 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."
  • Global Response Staff — The CIA's protective-security program for case officers operating in high-threat environments; run for the agency by Blackwater; especially active in Baghdad's Green Zone during the Iraq War, where movement between fixed locations was treated as life-threatening.
  • 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.
  • Palantir Technologies — U.S. data-analytics and intelligence-software company; received its first $1.5 million in seed funding from the CIA's In-Q-Tel venture-capital arm around 2002; characterized by John Kiriakou as functionally inseparable from the CIA in 2025, drawing the majority of its revenue from agency contracts and operating across DARPA, NSA, and the broader U.S. national-security apparatus.
  • Petra Bank — Jordan-based bank founded by Ahmed Chalabi and used by the Iraqi refugee community in Jordan; per John Kiriakou, looted of $36 million in a single night when Chalabi transferred every dollar to secret Swiss accounts and fled to Syria in the trunk of his secretary / girlfriend's car. Chalabi was tried and sentenced to death in absentia, then later pardoned at CIA request.
  • PFLP — Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Palestinian armed group co-founded by George Habash and Ahmed Khatib at the American University of Beirut; one of the Arab terrorist organizations John Kiriakou worked against during his two-year Athens tour in the late 1990s, alongside 17 November, the Abu Nidal Organization, the Libyans, and the PFLP General Command.
  • Revolutionary Organization 17 November — Greek far-left urban guerrilla group active 1975–2002; the deadliest terrorist organization in Greek history
  • 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.