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PricewaterhouseCoopers
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 7 recorded interviews · Last updated
The Big Four accounting firm that keeps intersecting John Kiriakou's story — as a target of the corporate human-source intelligence he collected after leaving the CIA, as the audience of 140 partners he told his Pakistan recruitment story to ("what I did and what you do really isn't that different"), as the auditor that spent three years trying to find the Pentagon's money before giving up, and as the Greek government's book-cooking auditor in the debt crisis, never prosecuted.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the Big Four firm that appears in John Kiriakou’s story from three unlikely directions.
Target, then audience
In his post-CIA corporate job, Kiriakou’s assignment was to collect first-person human-source intelligence on his employer’s competitors — Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and consulting rivals like IBM and Accenture.[1] The competitive stakes were concrete: a $50 million deal could turn on PwC undercutting a bid by four million.[2]
When his first book came out around early 2010, PwC hired him to keynote an offsite for 140 partners. He told them the story of the al-Qaeda fighter he recruited in Pakistan by treating him like a human being — and landed the moral: “What I did and what you do really isn’t that different, because it’s all about the relationship. If I can convince somebody to commit espionage… just because he has a good relationship with me, you can certainly” close a deal.[3][4][5][6]
The audits
PwC anchors two of Kiriakou’s favorite indictments. First, the Pentagon: brought in to externally audit the defense budget, PwC tried for three years and gave up — “we can’t find where this money went.” For Kiriakou, the unaccountable trillion-dollar budget is one of America’s major mistakes.[7][8][9] Second, Greece: as the Greek government’s auditor, PwC had been falsifying economic records for years — with Goldman Sachs involved — and in the end nobody from PwC, Goldman, or the government was ever prosecuted, while Greeks were left indebted for generations.[10][11]
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.
