Category: Places

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• Guantanamo Bay — U.S. naval base in Cuba; site of CIA detention operations during the post-9/11 enhanced interrogation program; briefly served by John Kiriakou as interim Chief during the summer of 2002.
• Mount Weather — U.S. government continuity-of-government underground facility on the Virginia–West Virginia line
• Strawberry Fields — The CIA's nickname for a secret black-site annex at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base used for the post-9/11 detention and interrogation program.
• The Farm — The CIA's clandestine training facility in Virginia; site of approximately 80% of all CIA operational training
• Falls Church mosque — Large mosque on Route 7 in Falls Church, Virginia; the site at which John Kiriakou, in 1993 as a CIA Arabic-language trainee, met then-imam Anwar al-Awlaki on a class field trip; the same mosque at which the September 11 hijackers prayed the night before the attacks.
• Yemen — Country on the southern Arabian Peninsula; setting of five John Kiriakou trips between 1990 and approximately 2010, spanning the country's brief unification, its civil war, and its present condition as a high-threat operating environment for U.S. and allied diplomatic personnel.