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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.

Global Services is the name John Kiriakou attaches to the post-9/11 CIA cadre that operationalises the 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.”[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 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

References

  1. ↑ 2600 | Oak Lawn, 2026-08-22. 31:27 on YouTube · Transcript
  2. ↑ 2600 | Oak Lawn, 2026-08-22. 31:59 on YouTube · Transcript
  3. ↑ 2600 | Oak Lawn, 2026-08-22. 32:31 on YouTube · Transcript
  4. ↑ 2600 | Oak Lawn, 2026-08-22. 33:02 on YouTube · Transcript
  5. ↑ 2600 | Oak Lawn, 2026-08-22. 33:33 on YouTube · Transcript
  6. ↑ 2600 | Oak Lawn, 2026-08-22. 34:03 on YouTube · Transcript

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