# The CIA Insider's Guide omnibus > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "The CIA Insider's Guide omnibus," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-cia-insiders-guide-omnibus/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *Skyhorse Publishing's plan to reissue John Kiriakou's three CIA Insider's Guides as a single updated volume of some 550 pages, with an introduction Tucker Carlson wrote in a day — part of what Kiriakou described in 2026 as a big book year.* - **Publisher:** Skyhorse Publishing - **Who proposed it:** Tony Lyons, the publisher - **The three books:** Surveillance and Surveillance Detection; Lying and Lie Detection; Disappearing and Living off the Grid - **Length:** About 550 pages - **Introduction:** [Tucker Carlson](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tucker-carlson), written in one day - **Requested deadline:** Saturday **The CIA Insider's Guide omnibus** is the single-volume reissue of [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s three practical guides, proposed to him by Tony Lyons, the owner and publisher of Skyhorse Publishing. The approach began with Lyons observing that Kiriakou was *"everywhere in my feed — you're on Instagram, you're on TikTok, you're on YouTube."* Kiriakou's own explanation was the one he gives everybody: *"this kid cut my videos up."*[1] The proposal was to republish [the guide to surveillance and surveillance detection](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia-insiders-guide-to-surveillance) together with the guides to lying and lie detection and to disappearing and living off the grid, *"in one fat book,"* updated. The requested deadline was Saturday; Kiriakou's answer was *"550 pages, I can't do it by Saturday."*[1][2] [Tucker Carlson](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tucker-carlson) agreed to write the introduction and delivered it the next day. Kiriakou telephoned to ask how he had written it in a day; Carlson's answer was that it was not that long — *"I just dashed it off"* — with the instruction that the book needed to get out.[2] Kiriakou's reply was that it did not need to, since the three books were all still in print and the exercise was repackaging and updating.[3] ## A big book year The omnibus was one of several projects Kiriakou listed. Skyhorse also wanted the CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis updated, *"which is going to be a bigger work since we're at war"*; the cemetery book had been postponed; the Mafia book was finished and awaiting a release date; and he had begun a book of stories, on the reasoning that *"I've got to get all my stories all in one place."*[3] His ambition for what follows is a move upmarket. Now that he has *"a really great literary agent,"* he hopes future books will be published by one of the big five, his best relationship being with Simon & Schuster, which has done several of his others. The attraction is promotional: the large houses *"have PR budgets. And so they will send me on a book tour."*[4][5] ## See also - [The CIA Insider's Guide to Surveillance and Surveillance Detection](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/cia-insiders-guide-to-surveillance) - [Remains of the Day (book)](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/remains-of-the-day-book) - [Tucker Carlson](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/tucker-carlson) - [The rebuttal book](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-rebuttal-book) ## Sources 1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 24:03. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=1443s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 24:34. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=1474s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 25:06. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=1506s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 25:37. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=1537s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 5. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2026-03-20), at 26:07. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=145C1-XphQs&t=1567s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-03-20-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. 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