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The standing arrangement under which CIA officers serve abroad under State Department cover. As a senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kiriakou was told the agency was misusing the agreement to place officers from the torture program under diplomatic cover so that publishing their names would expose journalists to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. His written query, sent over Senator John Kerry''s signature, came back classified above his own clearance.
The cover agreement between the CIA and the State Department is the standing arrangement under which agency officers serve abroad in declared diplomatic positions. John Kiriakou has described an allegation that the agency used it, after 2001, for a purpose it was not written for.
The allegation
While serving as a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kiriakou was approached by a journalist who said he had evidence that the CIA “was misusing its cover agreement with the State Department to place people involved in the torture program under State Department cover so that their names could not be exposed in the press.” The protective effect was legal rather than practical: if such a name were published, whoever supplied it would be exposed to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act — the same statute under which Kiriakou himself was later convicted.[1]
The letter, and the answer he was not allowed to read
Kiriakou”s reading was that this amounted to a violation of the cover agreement itself. He sent the agency a request for clarification under the signature of the committee”s then chairman, Senator John Kerry. A response arrived roughly six weeks later, classified Top Secret — a level above the clearance Kiriakou held at the time, so that the answer to his own question was withheld from him. A colleague who could read it summarised it for him. In Kiriakou”s paraphrase the letter said, in very strongly worded language, “mind your own business.”[2]
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.
