Title: فضح جون كيرياكو أسرارا كبيرة عن المخابرات الأميركية وتحول لخ
Show: Al Arabiya (العربية)
Date: 2024-01-22
URL: https://youtu.be/LjBCKQYdB3U
Duration: 3:00

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[00:02] In 2007, a former CIA officer appeared on ABC News and stated that torture was official US government policy. This man was John Kyriakos. What is his story? John Kyriakos was born in Alvania, USA, and grew up in New Castle, Oklahoma, before moving to

[00:32] Washington, D.C., to study Middle Eastern studies at George Washington University. In 1990, Kyriakos joined the CIA, working as an analyst and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas. He participated in operations that risked his life after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Kyriakos became the head of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan and led the operation to capture

[01:03] Abu Zubaydah, then the third-ranking member of al-Qaeda. He later became an executive assistant to the deputy director of operations at the CIA and held a position close to the director of intelligence in Iraq. During his service, Kyriakos refused to train in or implement so-called enhanced torture techniques against prisoners and documented them off- duty. In March 2004, he left the CIA and later worked as a senior investigator for the Council on Foreign Relations. A

[01:34] senator and intelligence advisor to Senator John Kerry in 2007, Kyriakos appeared on News to reveal that the CIA had used waterboarding on detainees, a form of enhanced torture, and that torture was an official US policy approved at the highest levels. In 2008, he leaked information to The New York Times about CIA agent Deus

[02:07] Martinez. The government investigated Kyriakos but did not prosecute him until 2012, when he was sentenced to three months in prison. However, he continued to reveal secrets, releasing a series of letters from Loreto federal prison called "Letters from Loreto." That wasn't all; Kyriakos also published the sensational book "The Reckoning Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War

[02:37] on Terror." He also worked in media, co-hosting the "Politics Miss Feet" program on Sputnik Radio and becoming a columnist for Reader's Sports News. Later, it was revealed that the CIA had waterboarded prisoner Abu Zubaydah 83 times, leading to his psychological trauma. In addition to other facts, Kyriacou was presented as an honest citizen seeking

[03:07] peace after becoming a spy and an enemy.
