Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early WikiLeaks associate who later left the project, is mentioned in a 2026 Berlin panel discussion that included John Kiriakou. The anecdote about meeting Domscheit-Berg through the Chaos Computer Club — in which he is introduced as “Daniel Schmitt” before being identified as Domscheit-Berg, and described as having “chickened out” of WikiLeaks soon after — was told by a different panelist, Der Spiegel journalist John Goetz, not by Kiriakou.[1]
No source in the corpus captures Kiriakou himself speaking about Daniel Domscheit-Berg.