John Kiriakou's Dead Drop Podcast Transcripts
John Kiriakou & Alan Katz · 54 episodes with transcripts
Join ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou on a very personal deep dive into what makes a spy tick. One of the most famous spies in the whole world, John - a spy with a conscience - blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program after the war on terror and spent 23 months in federal prison for it.
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S3E1 Whistleblowers & Spies
September 21, 2026
John Kiriakou (0:00)
This podcast, it's a Costard & Touchstone Production. As we start season three, I wanted to tell a quick story about how doing this podcast has changed my life, and in the most unexpected ways, all for the good. Literally, the biggest superstar in Greece is this singer named Konstantin Argyros. I called him the…
I was in the Hamptons for four days of events. There were four billionaires there, and three congressmen, and it was a big, big deal. All of a sudden, I'm the featured speaker. Nobody told me I was gonna speak, but I get up and I give this off-the-cuff speech, and these titles don't mean anything to you, but they're…
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