Title: John Kiriakou CIA Story Meme Compilation - PART 4
Show: Viral Plug
Date: 2026-02-21
URL: https://youtu.be/Gitzm_W-Uww
Duration: 11:00

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[00:00] Hey everyone, thank you all so much for the support in the last couple videos. It really means a lot. I also make music on the side, so if you want to check it out, the links in the description. No pressure at all, but I really appreciate it. If you're in the hotel doing a meeting, and most of the meetings are going to be either in a hotel or in a car, right? The more sensitive sources, you're going to meet in the car [music] and then just keep driving around. But in a hotel, if they start banging on your door, rip off your clothes and [music] jump into bed, both of you, cuz you're going to be gay for a minute. So when they finally break down the door, they're like, "Oh [ __ ] [music] we thought you were meeting because we

[00:31] thought you were CIA and you Oh my god, no, you're just gay and then everybody's okay." And a vulnerability can mean a lot of different things. Maybe he just really, really loves his kids. That can be a vulnerability because then that allows me to say, "I see how much you love your kids. I know you want your kids to go to the best schools. I can literally get your kid into Harvard and I'll pay for it, too, by the way. And he says, "Well, what do you want in exchange?" Well, I want the plans to

[01:02] that new Russian tank. I'd really like to get a peek at it. Another vulnerability would be, you know, maybe the guy's uh wife has are the Iranians are a threat to the United States. He said, "Of course not. They don't even have a missile capable of reaching the United States." But that's not the issue. The issue is, are they a threat to Israel? And everybody knows cuz Benjamin Netanyahu says it every 15 seconds that Iran is a an existential threat to Israel. But guess what? Israel is an existential threat to Iran.

[01:33] >> My colleague explained it in [music] great detail. And a lot of these techniques are not torture. Right? If I grab you by the lapels and say, >> "Dog on you and answer my questions." >> That's not torture. [music] Or the the first one was called the belly slap. uh or the attention slap was another way they call it where I >> smack you in the belly, makes a cracking sound. Maybe it leaves a handprint. It's a [music] little bit embarrassing. That's not torture. >> But then it graduated quickly to things like waterboarding, which everybody knows about. But there were techniques that were [music] that were in my view

[02:04] that were worse than waterboarding. Like for example, there was the cold cell. >> So they strip [music] you naked. They chain you to an eyebolt in the ceiling. >> So you can't you can't lay or kneel or sit or anything. and you can't get comfortable in any way. And >> [music] >> um they they chill the cell to 50° F >> and then every hour somebody [music] comes in and throws a bucket of ice water on you. >> Oh, but we killed [music] people with that technique. The Justice Department never said we could kill people. And when we would kill people, [music] >> at least two with that technique that

[02:35] that admitted to from hypothermia. >> Well, we have a special guest that's going to come [music] to the party tonight. And then Joe Biden comes. He was vice [music] president at the time. So Biden comes and Biden was exactly the opposite of Jerry. Biden's standing at the at the entrance to the [music] backyard or the sideyard. He goes, "Hey." Like this. Everybody's like, "Hey, Mr. Vice President. [music] Good to see you." So he comes down and um starts shaking hands with everybody one at a time. Great [music] eye contact. Uh hi Joe Biden. Tell me your name again. You know that kind of thing. I said, "Mr. Vice President, we've met a number

[03:06] of times. You probably don't remember me. I'm from Newcastle, Pennsylvania. My dad was best friends with Angelo [music] Sans." He goes, "Angelo Sans from seventh grade?" And I said, "Yeah, you're best friend from seventh grade." He says, "I do remember you. We talked about Angelo as a taxi driver in Las Vegas now." I said, "That's right. He is a taxi driver. Great memory." I said, "That conversation was 15 years ago." And then he says to the guy next to me. "I remember [music] you. >> I don't like you." >> And he looks at Carrie and Carrie just [music] like like I don't like him either. And they walk away. I said to the guy, "What the fuck?" >> He said, "Biden [music] has hated me since I told him in a memo that we

[03:37] should pull out of Afghanistan." >> I get in at 7:00 in the morning. He had something called a trunk line [music] where the unclassified phones in the office were connected to a [music] Washington exchange. So even though I'm in Pakistan, I've got a 202 number and [music] I I can dial a 202 number like a local call. So I would get in before everybody else and I would always call my then girlfriend, my post divorce girlfriend who became my second wife. [music] She was a senior CIA officer. So um [music] I would always end our conversations by saying, "Okay, love you

[04:07] and hang up." Yeah. >> And one of [music] the old-timers, there were seven old men who worked for me. They were all like very senior senior intelligence service level officers. All of them had been at least director of near eastern operations. One of them had been the deputy director of the CIA. And they all volunteered to come back as contractors after 911 just for patriotic reasons. [music] But if you're a contractor, you can't have a management position. So they worked for me, which is >> that must have been interesting. >> I learned more from [music] those guys in 6 months than I learned in the rest of the entirety of my career. But anyway, one of them [music] heard me finish the call and hang up. And he

[04:38] says, "So, are there wedding bells in the future?" [music] And I said, "Oh, I don't know. I just got divorced and I'm kind of afraid of being a two-time loser." And he says, "Two time loser." Jim, how many times have you been married? He [music] says, "Four for me." Dave, how many times have you been married? I got five. Bill, how many times you've been married? Three. And he says, "And I got four." >> And she had a she had a TV on and one of the towers of the World Trade Center was burning. And I said, "What happened to the World Trade Center?" And she said, "A plane flew into it."

[05:09] >> And I naively said, >> "You know, that happened once before >> in 1932. A bomber flew into the Empire State Building, >> but it was really foggy then. It's so crystal clear today. Like, how can you not see that you're flying into the World Trade Center?" And just as I said those words, the >> the second plane hit. >> And then she turned to me. I was standing behind her. She turned to me and she said, >> "Did you see that?"

[05:40] >> Or did I imagine it? And I ran back to my office and I >> said, "Guys, two planes just hit both towers of the World Trade Center. I think we're under attack." >> So everybody ran back up to the front office. Now, Kofheer's office had TVs mounted above the door like CNN, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, Russian, Iranian, whatever, Chinese, and um and they were all starting to switch over to a live feed,

[06:12] >> silence. >> I mean, there were, you know, 150, 200 people just standing there staring at the TVs in silence. And then finally somebody shouts, "Will somebody please lead?" >> And then Kofheer snapped back into, you know, real life and said, >> "You uh go to the director's office. You go to security. You talk to this guy. You >> um finally a cop came in to the to the office and said, "We're evacuating

[06:43] headquarters. Everybody get out." >> Nobody budged. And then an hour later he came back and said, "If you don't evacuate, >> you'll be arrested." Which they meant. >> So, I mean, talk about chaos. >> We all evacuated. >> Um, I got about halfway home. I lived about I lived about five or six miles from headquarters. I got about halfway and I just couldn't get any closer to my

[07:13] place. So, >> I just abandoned my car on the side of the highway. ituaries. >> Does torture work? >> No. See, and that's the biggest thing. >> Even if you think, well, you know, these guys are really bad. They mean us harm. They're murderers, mass murderers. Okay, fine. It doesn't work. That's why, you know, after I left the agency, I went to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I was the senior investigator there, and I I was working for John Kerry, and his office in the Russell Senate office building was directly next to John McCain's. And

[07:44] every single time McCain would see me, he would go out of his way to come and shake my hand and say, "Hi, John. How are you?" I'd say, "I'm great, Senator. How are you doing? Good to see you again." And finally, Carrie said to me one day, "Why don't you and McCain get a room or something?" And I said, "No." I said, "We have a connection over torture because he knows that I'm right. He knows because he lived it. They tortured him and he gave them all shit." They said, "Who are the people in your, you know, battalion or platoon or whatever?" And then he just named the,

[08:16] you know, uh, I had gone bankrupt because of the legal fees. I actually still owe my attorneys $1,150,000 that they'll never see. I'll never have that money to pay them. Said [music] the orders are to take them alive. No shooting. >> And I was looking at the Pakistanis when I said this. >> No shooting. Of course, they just opened fire, >> which began [music] by using um experimentally. What the CI did was they they [music] started by dosing

[08:46] their own employees without telling them. >> Let's see what happens. See what they say. See how it feels. You know, see if we can control them. See if >> we can plant memories that [music] didn't actually happen. >> And then they decided, no, it's not a good idea to dose our own people. >> Let's just dose strangers out in public. And one of them said, "That junk Kiryaku from the American embassy, he is such a nice guy." And then another one said, "You know what? Nobody's that nice. He's he's pretending to be nice >> so that we'll drop our guard."

[09:17] >> Okay. >> He's probably working against us, which I wasn't. >> So, they chose the worst possible surveillance guy. >> Oh, no. >> To just check me out and see what I was doing when I wasn't with them. And I spotted him immediately. and I was going to kill him. [laughter] And if I hadn't told the general that afternoon that I had spotted the surveillance and that I was going to kill the guy, he'd be in the ground. Three minutes after the cop warned me about people coming into my room unannounced, these two guys just walk in, boldly just walk in. I jump up. I >> put my fist up. I go, "What do you want?"

[09:48] >> One of them has a swastika [music] on his neck. It took up his entire neck. It came up onto his face. The other one had >> [ __ ] you tattooed on his eyelids. >> So I go, "What [music] do you want?" And and the the swastika guy says, "You the new guy?" I said, "Yeah, so and he says >> you a fag." >> I said, "No, I'm not a fag." He said, >> "You a rat?" I said, >> I said, "No, I didn't have anybody else in my case. I'm not a rat." And he says, "You a cho?" >> I go, "I don't know what that word means." He goes, >> "Chomo, child molester." >> I said, "No, I'm not a child molester."

[10:19] And he goes, "Okay, you could sit with the Aryans in the cafeteria." And I was like, "Oh, >> I guess I'm with the Aryans now." >> Oh, grand. [music] Yeah. And then the guy across the hall from me was the boss of the Banano family. >> I said, "Baghdad? [music] >> Where exactly in Baghdad?" >> I said, "If you hold on a second, I'll look up the address." So I looked it up. [music] I gave him the address. He >> says, "Thank you." And he hangs up the phone. 8 hours later, we fired 47 cruise missiles [music] into Iraqi intelligence service headquarters.

[10:50] >> But by then, it was the [music] middle of the night in Baghdaddy >> and we killed the janitor. >> Life is good. I'm about to clock out, man. This can't be how I go. [music] >> It's not even you. I know. >> CIA listen through our phones and laptop [music] cameras. >> Yes, >> I hate to say it. They can uh take over your smart television [music] and turn the speaker into a microphone >> so that they can listen to what's being said in the room even when the TV is

[11:21] turned off. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.
