CIA and NSA exotic programs
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John Kiriakou has described two obscure U.S. intelligence programs from recent decades.

The Church of Satan investigation

In the late 1980s, per Kiriakou, the FBI and Defense Department launched an investigation into a relatively senior NSA officer who had come out publicly as a member of the Church of Satan and was accused of engaging in ritual sacrifice. The investigation, he says, found no evidence to support the accusation.

The blinding laser weapon

Kiriakou also describes a CIA battlefield weapon developed in the 1990s under the Clinton administration: a laser designed to blind enemy soldiers rather than kill them. The weapon was shelved after CIA and White House lawyers determined that, under international law, blinding a soldier on the battlefield is illegal even though killing one is not.

See also

- Central Intelligence Agency
- John Kiriakou
