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A one-line request from Vice President Dick Cheney — what is the longest airstrip in northern Iraq made of? — that nobody in the CIA's operations directorate could answer, and that John Kiriakou eventually resolved by asking the agency librarian. The answer came back within a day, with the exact mix. The purpose was to work out whether the runway would take a transport aircraft carrying two tanks.
“I got a request from Vice President Cheney one time, and he wanted to know what the longest airstrip in northern Iraq was made of.” Kiriakou’s own reaction was bafflement — “and I was like, what?” — and it was shared by the operations directorate: “nobody in operations knew. They were like, what?” He kept restating the provenance to get anyone to take it seriously: “it’s from Cheney. Cheney specifically wants to know.”[1]
The resolution came from an unglamorous quarter. “I ended up having to enlist the CIA librarian, and she said, I can find this out.” Within twenty-four hours she had told him “exactly what it was made of and what the mix consisted of” — so much concrete, so much of everything else — and Kiriakou wrote the memo.[1][2]
The reason for the question turned out to be a load calculation: “they wanted to fly in tanks, and they wanted to know if the runway was solid enough to handle the weight of a plane carrying two tanks landed on it.”[2]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
