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Podcasters on foreign payrolls
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 2 recorded interviews · Last updated
John Kiriakou's account of being told by an investigative journalist he respects that four household-name podcasters were taking CIA money — an allegation she could not corroborate and would not publish. He treats it as credible and extends the logic: if the agency is paying podcasters, foreign governments will be paying them too.
Podcasters on foreign payrolls is a claim John Kiriakou says he had not considered until roughly a year before recounting it, when an investigative journalist changed his mind. Asked how many prominent commentators he believes are paid or otherwise compromised, his answer was direct: “You know what? I actually think it’s a lot.”[1]
The basis is second-hand and he presents it as such. A journalist “whom I respect a great deal” told him that people had independently come to her about four podcasters — “kind of household names” — who she was under the impression were taking CIA money. He asked whether she intended to publish. She would not: “No, because I can’t find anything to confirm it.”[2]
What he does with the claim is extend it by inference rather than evidence: “if podcasters have taken CIA money, you can bet your bottom dollar they’re taking Israeli money, Russian money, maybe even Chinese money. Who knows? Depending on what the issue is.”[3]
Who could actually find out
Asked separately what it would take to establish who is being funded by Israel, Qatar or anyone else, Kiriakou first moved the question to the right agency. It is “an FBI issue” — “the CIA by law would be forbidden from doing that on Americans” — though the agency could properly examine foreign nationals. On feasibility he was not pessimistic: “you probably need a couple of months to really dig it up, but you could dig it up.”[4]
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.
