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

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  Well, the CIA has a well-earned reputation for dishonesty.

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  Of course, the agency lies for a living.

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  That's what they do.

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  So why would you listen to former CIA officers to hear the truth?

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  Well, you wouldn't, except if the CIA officer in question had gone to prison for telling the truth.

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  People willing to suffer for telling the truth are the ones you listen to.

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  And no CIA officer in recent memory has spent more time in prison for telling the truth than John Kiriakou, our friend.

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  Well, he has written a brand new book on what he learned serving for so long as an operations officer at CIA,

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  and it's called The Ultimate Guide to CIA's Skills, Tactics, and Techniques.

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  And it's a fascinating read.

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  We are proud to be selling it right now on tuckercarlsonbooks.com.

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  Here is part of our conversation with John Kirikou.

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  John, thank you so much for doing this and congratulations on the book, which is absolutely awesome.

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  I'm looking at a copy right now.

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  So I can ask you a million questions.

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  I'm just going to ask you one, and it's about deception.

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  So the business to some extent of intelligence is deception.

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  It's being deceptive, but it's also detecting deception in others, which is a really important skill, I think.

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  How have you been trained to tell when other people are lying?

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  Well, there are a couple of different levels of training

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