# Will Hurd > **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: "Will Hurd," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/will-hurd/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *Former CIA case officer, congressman and OpenAI board member whom John Kiriakou says he mentored at the agency; Kiriakou cites him as an example of the intelligence and tech worlds merging.* - **Career:** CIA case officer → U.S. Congress → OpenAI board - **Per Kiriakou:** He mentored Hurd at the CIA **Will Hurd** is a former CIA case officer, U.S. congressman and OpenAI board member. [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) says he mentored Hurd — then a junior case officer with *"a gift"* for convincing people to commit espionage — before Hurd resigned to run for Congress in a court-mandated majority-Hispanic district, which he won three times.[1][2] Hurd briefly ran for president in 2024, gave up his seat, and joined the board of OpenAI; Kiriakou offers him as an example of the intelligence and technology worlds coming together, keeping *"one foot in the game and one foot in business."*[3] In a separate interview Kiriakou gave a fuller account of the same mentorship, calling Hurd *"an awesome case officer, as honest as the day is long"* despite their differing politics, and recalling Hurd announcing his resignation to run for Congress; Kiriakou notes Hurd — who is half Black, half white — won three times in the same Supreme Court-mandated majority-Hispanic district before his 2024 presidential run and subsequent seat on the OpenAI board.[4][5][6] Kiriakou has repeated the mentorship claim in at least two further interviews, in each case calling Hurd an *"awesome"* or *"gifted"* officer with *"a gift for recruiting people,"* who left the CIA after about six years, was elected to Congress three times from the same majority-Hispanic Texas district, ran briefly for president, and now sits on the board of OpenAI and chairs the board of another AI company.[7][8] ## An intelligence placement? Asked whether Hurd's political and tech-industry trajectory could be an intelligence-community placement rather than an independent career, Kiriakou says he doubts it, though he does not rule it out entirely: *"Is that the just embedding an operative there? ... It's possible, but I would say no."* His reasoning is that Hurd went to work first for a former CIA boss who had already left the agency to make money in the private sector — ordinary career succession rather than a run operation.[9] ## See also - [Palantir Technologies](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/palantir) - [In-Q-Tel](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/in-q-tel) ## Sources 1. John Kiriakou: "He Sold Us Secrets!" How Jeffrey Epstein Ran Mossad, MI6, and the CIA (2026-06-07), at 52:43. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjL0abFfcsA&t=3163s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-07-jack-neel-epstein-mossad-mi6-cia/ 2. John Kiriakou: "He Sold Us Secrets!" How Jeffrey Epstein Ran Mossad, MI6, and the CIA (2026-06-07), at 53:15. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjL0abFfcsA&t=3195s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-07-jack-neel-epstein-mossad-mi6-cia/ 3. John Kiriakou: "He Sold Us Secrets!" How Jeffrey Epstein Ran Mossad, MI6, and the CIA (2026-06-07), at 53:46. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjL0abFfcsA&t=3226s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-07-jack-neel-epstein-mossad-mi6-cia/ 4. John Kiriakou: THEY Really Did THIS — Jay Dyer Show (2026-04-29), at 1:39:57. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqx0uSr1yYk&t=5997s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-04-29-jay-dyer-they-really-did-this/ 5. John Kiriakou: THEY Really Did THIS — Jay Dyer Show (2026-04-29), at 1:40:28. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqx0uSr1yYk&t=6028s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-04-29-jay-dyer-they-really-did-this/ 6. John Kiriakou: THEY Really Did THIS — Jay Dyer Show (2026-04-29), at 1:40:58. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqx0uSr1yYk&t=6058s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-04-29-jay-dyer-they-really-did-this/ 7. Spy vs Spy — Ep 959 (2026-01-26), at 15:04. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLD02oLoGHU&t=904s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-26-tin-foil-hat-w-sam-tripoli/ 8. John Kiriakou on Israeli Spycraft, False Flags, and the CIA (2026-07-05), at 1:08:35. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqyYHuJsQgM&t=4115s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-07-05-the-bad-news-program/ 9. Spy vs Spy — Ep 959 (2026-01-26), at 16:38. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLD02oLoGHU&t=998s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-01-26-tin-foil-hat-w-sam-tripoli/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. 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