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Fabricated intelligence reporting
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 2 recorded interviews · Last updated
The three things John Kiriakou says CIA case officers are caught doing — inventing intelligence outright, holding real reports back to smooth out a monthly quota, and padding cover-stop expenses — and his argument that the fabrication is driven by production targets set by bad managers.
Asked whether CIA operations officers ever lie about the intelligence they collect in order to build a career, John Kiriakou’s answer is that they do, that a great deal of training time was spent on it, and that it leads to “a very quick firing.”[1]
The quota
His explanation is managerial rather than moral. Sometimes, he says, you work for a chief who decrees that everybody must produce five pieces of finished intelligence a month or fall below threshold — not an average of five, but five every month. But the work does not arrive evenly: some months bring ten or twelve, and some months are spent cultivating new agents and bring none. “So what that does is it encourages people to just make it up and write it up as intelligence.” Some pull it out of an obscure newspaper.[2][3]
Holding reports in reserve
The subtler version does not invent anything. An officer who meets an agent and comes away with ten reports files the five he needs now and keeps five back for next month, provided they are not too time-sensitive. Kiriakou does not call this fabrication, but he does call it what it is: “that’s intellectually dishonest.”[4][5]
The third offence
The third thing officers are caught at is petty: inventing or recycling receipts for the five to twenty dollars allowed at each cover stop and pocketing the money. Kiriakou finds this the least comprehensible of the three — “is it really worth being fired to steal $20 from the CIA?” — and, asked whether it says something about the personality type recruited to be a case officer, agrees that it does.[6][7]
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.
