DOING TIME LIKE A SPY. ON PRISON SURVIVAL AND THE CIA'S WAR ON TERROR.
John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower, USA). Moderated by Magnus Ag (senior program officer, Freemuse, DK/DE)
CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou is considered the first US intelligence officer to reveal information about the US intelligence community’s use of torture techniques. A long-time former CIA official and case officer, John Kiriakou became an anti-torture whistleblower and activist when he told ABC News in December 2007 that the CIA was torturing Al Qaeda prisoners. Immediately after John’s interview, the Justice Department initiated a years-long investigation, determined to find something-anything-to charge him with. John eventually was charged with three counts of espionage, one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and one count of making a false statement as a result of the 2007 ABC News interview.
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, Kiriakou began serving his prison sentence. During this keynote presentation, Kiriakou will talk about the effects and costs of national security whistleblowing in the United States, as well as his book, Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison, to be released May 3, 2017 (published by Rare Bird Books). The book is Kiriakou’s memoir of his twenty-three months in prison. Using twenty life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. What were improper and inappropriate manipulations of Kiriakou, through maneuvers that were designed to break him, came an end result that only made him stronger.
Disruption Network Lab
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin.
Berlin, May 12, 2017:
PRISONERS OF DISSENT: Locked Up for Exposing Crimes
11th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 2, 10178 Berlin.
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Programme Managers: Claudia Dorfmüller & Nada Bakr
Credits:
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com
Graphic: Jonas Frankki
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