What happens in the spy world It is not far behind films like Mission Impossible o Hitmanaccording to revelations from John LuckiotherCIA agent between 1990 and 2004.
The thing is that in his statements he did not leave his former workplace very well, having defined it as “of sociopathic tendency” the tasks that are assigned to the employees there.
As one of the organization’s best-known whistleblowers, he has now spoken again about controversial issues in a video published by LADbible in Youtube.
There, the former member of the American intelligence service answered questions about you listen in privacylos hitmenand other illegal practices such as disappearance of people.
The 61-year-old was Chief of Counter-Terrorist Operations in Pakistan after the September 11, 2001 attack in USA.
Then it became a whistleblower of secret practices since he decided to expose waterboarding, one of the tortuous interrogation techniques used by the CIA. Here it is important to clarify that this type of torture was prohibited by Barack Obama in 2009.
Cars controlled to “simulate accidents” and televisions “that listen”
In the recent video, Kiriakou –who was imprisoned in 2012 for leaking classified information to the press- assured that the CIA “listen to people” through their phones y cameras. On the other hand, it can “intercept anything from anyone,” including a car with a built-in computer, he stated.
«For what? So that you jump off a bridge into a tree, kill yourself and it looks like an accident.»he assured without blushing.
Controversial actions of the CIA were denounced by John Kiriakou Photo: AFP According to him, the organism can “turn a smart TV speaker into a microphone”, to “listen to what is said in a room”. “Even when the TV is off”he said with his eyes wide open.
“Hitman-style” killers: “they are real”
Kiriakou affirmed that hired killers “are real.” «In it National Security Council There is a committee that meets every Tuesday at 9 in the morning to do something called ‘the death list’. “They sit around the table and make a list of all the people they want to kill that week.”he assured calmly.
And he continued without hesitation: “Then they give it (the list) to the CIAwhich has a special unit. I won’t say the name, but they say: ‘okay, number one.’ And they go to the airport, take the plane, go to that country, kill the person, come back and go for the second one on the list. That happens every week”.
The former agent described these actions as “immoral” and illegal, but at the same time commissioned by the President of the Nation himself. The people who are the center of such objectives are “the most terrorists dangerous of the world”, as he said.
On recruit informants abroadassured that, after a process in which “a friendship is created” with the interested person, they can be offered $5,000 a month for information.
«Disappearing people» and obtaining a new identity
Kiriakou stated that the CIA can do people disappear “without a trace”. “They do it all the time”said about the burial of people in unknown places.
Kiriakou spent 23 months in prison following his 2012 conviction in the United States. Photo: Capture/YTThe former agent recalled that after 9/11, The CIA created “an archipelago of secret prisons” where they could detain Al Qaeda suspects without official registration. Regarding those prisons, he stated that “not even the presidents or prime ministers of the countries knew they existed or where they were located.”
In this way the agency could “make people disappear” in clandestine places. The other way of carrying out this action was linked to deserters that offer information that “can endanger their lives.” They would be provided with a different name, money, protection and security regarding their new identity.
“If you are a KGB officer and you want to defect, the CIA gives you a new identitymore money than you can imagine, and you and your family can live happily ever after under the name ‘John Smith.’”he said not without some irony.
