# Global Services > **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: "Global Services," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/global-services/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The name John Kiriakou gives to the cadre now carrying out the Tuesday-morning White House kill-list meetings, a paramilitary team he says was trained after 9/11 by the head of the Special Activities Division, a former Cali Cartel hitman recruited into the CIA precisely because the agency needed people who knew how to kill without being caught.* - **Per Kiriakou:** The CIA cadre that executes the [Tuesday morning kill list](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tuesday-morning-kill-list) - **Trained by:** The former head of the [Special Activities Division](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/special-activities-division), an ex-Cali-cartel hitman Kiriakou knew personally as *"Rick"* - **Enabled by:** Vault 7-era tooling, remote hacking of cars, smart TVs, phones - **Weekly cycle:** 7 a.m. White House meeting → list of names → teams dispatched → return for next Tuesday - **Kiriakou's summary:** *"They kill the people they're supposed to kill and then they come back for next Tuesday's meeting"* **Global Services** is the name [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) attaches to the post-9/11 CIA cadre that operationalises the [Tuesday-morning kill list](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tuesday-morning-kill-list), the paramilitary teams the agency dispatches around the world to kill named individuals produced by a standing weekly meeting at the White House. ## The trainer Kiriakou's most-repeated line about the cadre is that he knew the man who built it, *"Rick"*, an unassuming colleague ten feet from his desk in the Counterterrorism Center. *"Nicest guy. He'd come in every morning. He'd say, 'Hey guys.' We'd say, 'Hey, Rick.'"* Kiriakou did not know what Rick did. A neighbouring officer told him: *"John, he's the head of the [Special Activities Division](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/special-activities-division)."*[1][2] The retrospective Kiriakou credits is a *Vanity Fair* piece: *"what qualified him to be the head of the Special Activities Division was that he had been a hitman for the Cali cartel when he was recruited into the CIA right at 9/11 because we needed somebody who knew how to kill people and not get caught. And so he trained an entire cadre that is now called global services."*[2][3] ## The weekly calendar The operating cycle Kiriakou describes is a calendar entry. *"With the technology that the CIA has now, it is able to carry out a meeting at the White House every Tuesday morning at 7:00 called the Tuesday morning kill list meeting. And what they do is they come up with a list of people to be executed that week. And then using technology that we learned about thanks to the Vault 7 revelations, global services sends its teams all around the world. They kill the people they're supposed to kill and then they come back for next Tuesday's meeting."*[3][4] ## The toolkit The technology Kiriakou attaches to Global Services is the toolkit the [Vault 7](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/vault-7) leaks put in the public record: remote takeover of car computers *"to drive you over a bridge or into an abutment or into a tree"*; the smart-TV attack that turns the speaker into a microphone while the set appears off; the phone stack Kiriakou has stopped trying to defend against.[5][6] ## See also - [Special Activities Division](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/special-activities-division) - [Tuesday morning kill list](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tuesday-morning-kill-list) - [Vault 7](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/vault-7) - [CIA](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia) ## Sources 1. Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing and Building Movement | John Kiriakou - HOPE 16 (2026-08-22), at 31:27. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjpYJpzmms&t=1887s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-08-22-2600-oak-lawn-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-and/ 2. Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing and Building Movement | John Kiriakou - HOPE 16 (2026-08-22), at 31:59. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjpYJpzmms&t=1919s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-08-22-2600-oak-lawn-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-and/ 3. Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing and Building Movement | John Kiriakou - HOPE 16 (2026-08-22), at 32:31. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjpYJpzmms&t=1951s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-08-22-2600-oak-lawn-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-and/ 4. Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing and Building Movement | John Kiriakou - HOPE 16 (2026-08-22), at 33:02. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjpYJpzmms&t=1982s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-08-22-2600-oak-lawn-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-and/ 5. Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing and Building Movement | John Kiriakou - HOPE 16 (2026-08-22), at 33:33. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjpYJpzmms&t=2013s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-08-22-2600-oak-lawn-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-and/ 6. Both Sides of the Wire: Surveillance, Whistleblowing and Building Movement | John Kiriakou - HOPE 16 (2026-08-22), at 34:03. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjpYJpzmms&t=2043s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-08-22-2600-oak-lawn-both-sides-of-the-wire-surveillance-whistleblowing-and/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/global-services/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt