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Frank Snepp
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 1 recorded interview · Last updated
The CIA analyst who wrote Decent Interval, and whom John Kiriakou calls a giant — one of the great analysts of his generation, practically the first to say publicly that the United States was losing in Vietnam and committing atrocities there, who paid for it with his career and spent most of the rest of his life fighting the agency's publications review board.
Frank Snepp is the CIA analyst and author of Decent Interval whom John Kiriakou was asked about on 25 February 2026, in the same viewer question that raised his own forthcoming trip to Vietnam.
Kiriakou’s answer was unqualified. “Frank Snepp was a giant. He was one of the one of the great analysts of his generation.”[1]
What he was first to say
The claim to standing is a claim about timing. “He was practically the first one to call Vietnam the way it really was and uh and that we were losing there and that we were committing atrocities.”[1][2]
Saying it inside the institution had the predictable result: “He paid for it with his career.”[2]
The publications fight
What Kiriakou records next is the part that outlasted the career. “Brilliant author. He had to fight the CIA’s publications review board practically to the end of his life.”[2]
The detail is not incidental to Kiriakou’s own record: the publications review board is the same machinery that governs what former officers may write, and Snepp’s case is the one that set the terms under which every later CIA memoirist has published.
Kiriakou closed on the phrase he uses for very few people: “Deep respect for Frank Snepp.”[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.
