Larry Devlin
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Larry Devlin was a CIA officer and chief of station in the Congo. John Kiriakou, who describes him as "our former colleague" and says he died several years before this 2026 recording, raises him as a standard he has not met: "I wish I had the guts that our former colleague Larry Devlin had."

Devlin wrote a memoir of his entire career in agency operations, titled Chief of Station, Congo, a title Kiriakou notes is "even the title is a security violation."

The manoeuvre was in the timing. "What he did is he told his daughter: publish this the day after I die. And that's what she did. And they never went to the Publications Review Board." Kiriakou's verdict, "well played", comes with the observation that the secrecy agreements have presumably been tightened since, "at least if the lawyers are worth anything."

See also

- Publications Review Board
- Central Intelligence Agency
- John Kiriakou
