A former CIA agent has revealed that the agency pursues people with a certain mental disorder because it makes them the best agents.
John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said the agency “actively seeks to hire people with sociopathic tendencies” but avoids individuals with a serious disorder.
A “sociopath” is someone who lacks empathy, disregards the feelings of others, and may manipulate or harm others without remorse, often for their own personal gain.
“Sociopaths are impossible to control,” Kiriakou said. “They slip through the cracks because they have no conscience and pass the polygraph test very easily because they don’t feel guilty.”
Someone who possesses some of these qualities tends to rise to the highest levels of the CIA.
‘People who haveociopathic tendencies actually have a conscience but I’m still perfectly happy working in the moral, legal and ethical gray areas,” Kiriakou said.
Kiriakou admitted that he falls into the category of sociopathic tendencies, explaining that he was “happy to break into people’s houses and plant bugs.”
The former officer used the idea that he was one of the good guys and that his country needed him to feed its sociopathic tendencies.
John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said the agency “actively sought to hire people with sociopathic tendencies” but avoided individuals with a serious disorder.
The CIA has admitted that spies have pathological personality traits that aid them in their espionage efforts, such as a sense of entitlement or a desire for power and control.
While employed by the CIA, Kiriakou participated in critical counterterrorism missions following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He participated in the capture of terrorist Abu Zubaydah.
However, he refused to be trained in so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Kiriakou claimed he never authorized or used these techniques.
After leaving the CIA, he appeared on ABC News where he said the CIA had simulated detainees and called the action torture.
The interview led to Kiriakou being arrested in 2012 and charged with one count of violating the Intelligence Privacy Act for allegedly illegally disclosing the identity of a secret agent.
He was also charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly illegally disclosing national defense information to persons not authorized to receive it, and one count of false statements for allegedly lying to the CIA Publications Review Board in an unsuccessful attempt to trick the CIA into allowing him to include classified information in a book he sought to publish.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
After leaving the CIA, he appeared on ABC News (pictured) where he said the CIA had simulated detainees and called the action torture.
Jim “Mad Dog” Lawler, who spent 25 years at the CIA, said he would do virtually anything legal to get people in foreign countries to become spies for the United States, but admitted to being extremely empathetic.
“A CIA psychiatrist once told me that the CIA was looking to hire people with sociopathic tendencies — not sociopaths because sociopaths don’t have consciences,” Kiriakou said, speaking to The Real News Network.
Asked if he thought that’s what the CIA saw in him, he said, “I think they probably did.”
Kiriakou provided a question he was asked during the CIA job interview.
“They said, ‘You know Mr. You need him. And you work on him to recruit him so that eventually he gives you this file.
“But he is not recruitable. And finally, when you ask him for the file, he tells you no. What are you doing?’
“I said, I’ll break into the house and take the file.” This seemed like a perfectly logical answer to me.
The former CIA officer explained that because he believed he was one of the good guys, Mr.
Another former CIA agent, Jim “Mad Dog” Lawler, echoed Kiriakou’s remarks about sociopathic tendencies within the agency.
The CIA admitted that spies have pathological personality traits that pave the way for espionage, such as a sense of entitlement or a desire for power and control, but noted that a calm temperament or strong sense of responsibility are desirable.
Lawler had a 25-year career with the agency as a nuclear weapons expert and spy.
He was a specialist in the recruitment of foreign spies and devoted more than half of his career at the CIA to fighting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
During his career, Lawler served as leader of AQ Khan’s nuclear dismantlement team, which resulted in the disruption of a nuclear weapons network led by Abdul Qadeer Khan.
The network was active in the 1980s and 1990s and involved countries such as Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Lawler recently said the CIA is looking for people who are dangerously in danger or who straddle the sociopath line.
“A good friend of mine, he was an operational psychologist at the CIA and he was reviewing the criteria for hiring more people like me and he wondered if you knew how sociopathic we were,” he said in speaking on the Julian Dorey podcast.
“What I did was pretty sociopathic. I manipulate people. I exploit people. I found that doing it against strangers was really, really fun.
“It’s that sociopathic part where we like to break people’s laws because that’s what we do, we break the laws of foreign countries.” We convince people to become traders.
He also explained that he would do virtually anything legal to get people in foreign countries to become spies for the United States.
Lawler admitted he only used his “special skills” three times, including avoiding a ticket and getting an upgrade to first class on a plane.
The former CIA officer said he was also extremely empathetic, which is the complete opposite of a full-blown sociopath.
