# The Analysis Corporation

> **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou.
>
> Cite as: "The Analysis Corporation," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/analysis-corporation/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia.

*Arlington, Virginia–based [private intelligence firm](/wiki/private-intelligence); one of two companion entities (alongside Arrais Corporation) created as LLC pass-throughs for retired Senior Intelligence Service personnel; John Brennan was appointed its CEO in 2005.*

- **Location:** Arlington, Virginia
- **Function:** LLC pass-through for retired Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) analysts
- **2005 CEO:** [John Brennan](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-brennan)
- **Companion firm (for retired ops officers):** [Arrais Corporation](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/arrais-corporation) (subsequently sold to IBM for over $1 billion)

**The Analysis Corporation** was a private intelligence firm in Arlington, Virginia, created, along with its companion entity [Arrais Corporation](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/arrais-corporation), as an LLC pass-through for retired [Senior Intelligence Service](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia) (SIS) personnel from the [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia)'s analytical side. *"The analysis company was where all the SIS senior intelligence service level analysts would go, the retired analysts."* [John Brennan](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-brennan) was appointed its CEO in 2005.[1][2]

## Origin and post-9/11 commercialization

The two firms were originally configured as informal social-and-tax pass-throughs: *"They were legitimately set up just as LLC pass-throughs, right? So people could go and smoke cigars and drink coffee and tell stories with their friends and hang out all day."* After September 11, both firms became substantially commercial. [Arrais Corporation](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/arrais-corporation), the parallel pass-through for retired operations officers, was subsequently acquired by IBM for over $1 billion, making senior CIA retirees *"not just rich but … like, you know, megamillions lotto kind of rich."*[2][3]

## Founding in 1990 and the Brzezinski connection

The Analysis Corporation was created in 1990 to track terror movements after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. [4] In the same conversation, Kiriakou noted that [Zbigniew Brzezinski](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/zbigniew-brzezinski) was connected to the firm.[5]

## See also

- [John Brennan](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-brennan)
- [Arrais Corporation](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/arrais-corporation)
- [Operation Mockingbird](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/operation-mockingbird)

## Sources

1. Mossad, Terrifying CIA Technology, Blackwater & The Most Secret CIA Unit (2025-08-31), at 50:10. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3FxH39oYsA&t=3010s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-31-dalton-fischer-mossad-blackwater/
2. Mossad, Terrifying CIA Technology, Blackwater & The Most Secret CIA Unit (2025-08-31), at 50:40. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3FxH39oYsA&t=3040s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-31-dalton-fischer-mossad-blackwater/
3. Mossad, Terrifying CIA Technology, Blackwater & The Most Secret CIA Unit (2025-08-31), at 51:11. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3FxH39oYsA&t=3071s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-31-dalton-fischer-mossad-blackwater/
4. CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou and High Stakes Treason Author Ian Trottier on criminal John Brennan (2026-02-07), at 08:00:00. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZj-EtpO1E&t=28800s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-02-07-michael-jaco-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-and-high-stakes-treason-/
5. CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou and High Stakes Treason Author Ian Trottier on criminal John Brennan (2026-02-07), at 04:53:00. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZj-EtpO1E&t=17580s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-02-07-michael-jaco-cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-and-high-stakes-treason-/

---

From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/analysis-corporation/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt