# Gangstalking claims > **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: "Gangstalking claims," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/gangstalking-claims/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The belief, put to John Kiriakou almost daily, that the CIA subjects private individuals to permanent multi-person surveillance and electromagnetic attack. He rejects it as untrue and as a matter for psychiatry, while conceding that one element of the folklore has a real basis.* - **The claim:** Continuous multi-person surveillance plus electromagnetic weapons - **Kiriakou's answer:** *"The CIA doesn't do that"* - **Last experimentation he acknowledges:** 1975 - **Frequency of the query:** Almost daily Asked about CIA surveillance targeting programmes, electromagnetic weapons, mind control and *"gangstalking on innocent civilians"*, Kiriakou's answer is flat: *"the CIA doesn't do that. The CIA hasn't even experimented with it since 1975. It's my understanding that there is no such thing as gangstalking."*[1][2] ## The shape of the claim He receives the query *"almost every day"* and describes the one that arrived the day before as representative: a man who said he had been under close-in surveillance for six years, that the CIA followed him everywhere as he drove for Uber, that a man had stared at him in the grocery store, and that at night electromagnetic weapons were used on him, giving him headaches and preventing sleep.[2][3] Kiriakou's response is short and unsoftened: *"It's like, no. That's mental illness. You need to see a psychiatrist, not a former CIA officer."*[3][4] Asked what the word means, he defines it as described by its believers — *"a whole gang of people and they're constantly on you. Like some are following you close in, some are following you from a distance, some are beaming waves at you, some are in cars around you"* — and then dismisses it: *"It's all made up. It's all in their minds."*[4] ## Why it could not happen His refutation is operational rather than rhetorical, and turns on cost. Surveillance is expensive and conspicuous; an operation of that kind *"at most would last a day or two and it would be targeted against somebody who had very specific information that the CIA needed. Not some Uber driver driving around, you know, Kentucky. It's just not real life."*[5] He notes the existence of a website where such claims are collected and traded — accounts of the agency *"stealing their dreams and planted a chip in the filling in their tooth and communicating through some kind of waves."*[5][6] One element he affirms. Put to him that people have credibly picked up AM/FM radio through their fillings and concluded they were being spied on, he agrees twice: *"Yes… Absolutely true."*[6][7] ## See also - [Havana Syndrome](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/havana-syndrome) - [Central Intelligence Agency](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia) ## Sources 1. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 39:32. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2372s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ 2. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 40:04. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2404s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ 3. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 40:35. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2435s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ 4. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 41:05. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2465s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ 5. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 41:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2496s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ 6. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 42:06. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2526s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ 7. A Super Dumb Mass Murder (2026-03-12), at 42:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXefViRMCk&t=2556s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-12-deprogram-ted-rall-a-super-dumb-mass-murder/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/gangstalking-claims/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt