Craig Murray is the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan whom John Kiriakou cites as a witness to extreme torture and as an example of the CIA training other services in it.[1] During a meeting at the Uzbek intelligence service, Murray heard a man screaming and — against his hosts’ admonitions — walked into a room where a man was being “boiled in oil,” his skin coming off his body “like removing a glove.”[2] In a separate telling, Kiriakou says a CIA station chief was present, standing there and watching the boiling happen.[3] When he reported it, Murray was told to take down the cable and be promoted to Ambassador to Denmark, or go to the press and face arrest; he went to the press, and his career was ruined — but Kiriakou calls him “a champion of human rights” and, elsewhere, “a global human rights hero.”[4][5] Kiriakou says the CIA used Uzbekistan as a place to send prisoners specifically because it lacked a free press or American journalists who might report on the abuses there.[6] Kiriakou also recalls attending a whistleblower-conference panel with Murray at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, describing him there as “the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan who’s a renowned human rights whistleblower.”[7]
The DNC thumb-drive courier (Reason2Resist)
John Kiriakou says Craig Murray came to the United States in 2016 ostensibly to present him with an award — but that this was a cover trip. Murray was actually here on behalf of WikiLeaks to meet the DNC leaker and take possession of the thumb drive, which he flew back to Iceland and gave to WikiLeaks — direct evidence, Kiriakou argues, that the DNC emails were an in-person leak, not a Russian hack.[8][9]