Ex-CIA Agent John Kiriakou on the CIA’s Most Successful Lying Techniques

Tucker Carlson· Host0:00

[intro music] Well, the CIA has a well-earned reputation for dishonesty. Of course, the agency lies for a living. That's what they do. So why would you listen to former CIA officers to hear the truth? Well, you wouldn't, except if the CIA officer in question had gone to prison for telling the truth. People willing to suffer for telling the truth are the ones you listen to. And no CIA officer in recent memory has spent more time in prison for telling the truth than John Kiriakou, our friend. Well, he has written a brand-new book on what he learned serving for so long as an operations officer at CIA, and it's called The Ultimate Guide to CIA Skills, Tactics, and Techniques, and it's a fascinating read. We are proud to be selling it right now on TuckerCarlsonBooks.com. Here is part of our conversation with John Kiriakou. John, thank you so much for doing this, and congratulations on the book, which is absolutely awesome.

John Kiriakou· Guest0:59

Thank you.

Tucker Carlson· Host0:59

I'm looking at a copy right now. Um, so I c- Thank you ... I could ask you a million questions. I'm just gonna ask you one, and it's about deception. So the business, to some extent, of intelligence is deception. It's being deceptive, but it's also detecting deception in others, which is a really important [laughs] skill, I think. How have you been trained to tell when other people are lying?

John Kiriakou· Guest1:21

Well, there are a couple of different levels of training. For, for those of us who are just going out into the field as operations officers or case officers,