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Two occasions on which, according to John Kiriakou, the first message the CIA received after an American killing came from the KGB and said the same thing: we promise it wasn't us. One followed the assassination of Athens station chief Richard Welch in December 1975, the other the killing of President Kennedy in November 1963. Kiriakou treats them as evidence of a standing gentleman's agreement between the two services not to touch each other's people — one he expects to hold even where Russian troops overrun CIA bases.
The KGB denial cables are two messages John Kiriakou cites as proof of an unwritten rule governing how the American and Soviet services treat each other’s officers.
The agreement
“We’ve always had a gentleman’s agreement with the Russians that we don’t harm or interfere with their people, and they won’t harm and interfere with our people.”[1]
Athens, 1975
Kiriakou read the traffic himself. Recalling the reports from the murder of the CIA station chief in Athens, Dick Welch, on 23 December 1975: “the very first cable that we received was from Moscow, and it was the KGB saying, we promise it wasn’t us.”[1]
Dallas, 1963
He gives the same account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963: “the very first message that the CIA received was from the KGB saying, we promise it wasn’t us. There’s this gentleman’s agreement that has always been respected.”[2]
Why it still matters
Kiriakou raised the agreement to answer a practical question about the war in Ukraine: what happens when Russian troops reach the CIA bases reported to be sited along the Russian border. His expectation is limited and specific — “sure, they might overrun CIA bases and they’ll likely expel those CIA officers, but I wouldn’t expect much more.”[2]
The interviewer’s response, that he was not sure the Russians were gentlemen, went unanswered as the segment ran out of time.[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.
