Alfreda Bikowsky
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Alfreda Bikowsky is a senior Central Intelligence Agency officer who headed Alec Station, the CIA's Bin Laden unit, and before that served as its chief of operations, overseeing the agency's torture program. John Kiriakou describes her as "bad news from the get-go."

The San Diego cell

Kiriakou says Bikowsky and Rich Blee tried to turn the San Diego al-Qaeda cell into double agents but failed, and "dropped the ball."

The clique of five

Kiriakou describes a group of five women in the Counterterrorism Center around whom the detention programme was built, and says Jennifer Matthews was the only one of them he did not hate; the others he calls bloodthirsty monsters. Asked directly whether the officer he calls the red-headed devil had been trained in the torture techniques, his answer was that she had not merely been trained in them, she was the programme's founder and creator.

See also

- Maher Arar
- John Kiriakou
