John Kiriakou's Dead Drop
Hosted by John Kiriakou · John Kiriakou & Alan Katz
4.9from 4,269 ratings
- 55
- Episodes
- 42
- Transcribed
- 4,269
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About John Kiriakou's Dead Drop
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. As John explains, no spy is ever an "ex-spy". Why is that so? Listen to the podcast and you'll understand why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- John Kiriakou & Alan Katz
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 8 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
42 of 55 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
S3E3 Liars (And Lying) 101
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S3E2 The Whistleblower's Tiger Mom
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S3E1 Whistleblowers & Spies
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S3E3 Liars (And Lying) 101
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That meant an IRC could be bought cheaply in Italy and exchanged for U.S. stamps of higher value. Those higher price stamps could then be sold and a profit realized. The bigger the difference, the bigger the profit. Having found a weakness in the system, Ponzi saw an opportunity to make some real money. He'd later claim that the net profit on these transactions, after expenses and exchange rates, was more than 400%. And this was entirely legal. In modern financial terms, we would call this a form of arbitrage or profiting by buying an asset at a lower price in one market and then immediately selling it in a market where the price was higher. […]
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- Jesselyn Radack
- Tom Drake
- Alan Katz
- Paul Wright
- Joey Casello
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 2,021 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2,248 ratings
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