Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.



Doing Time Like a Spy 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. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.
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Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.



Doing Time Like a Spy 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. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.
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Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

by John Kiriakou

Narrated by Jonathan Yen

Unabridged — 11 hours, 55 minutes

Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison

by John Kiriakou

Narrated by Jonathan Yen

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Overview

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a thirty month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners.



Doing Time Like a Spy 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. Including his award-winning blog series "Letters from Loretto," Doing Time Like a Spy is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Kiriakou confidently portrays himself as a larger-than-life survivor type, justifiably proud of his stance against CIA-sanctioned torture...An irreverent and unsettling footnote to the war on terror."
Kirkus Reviews

"A great memoir offers the-rest-of-the-story appeal, and when the CIA, 9/11, waterboarding, whistleblowing, scapegoating, coverups, and federal prison all factor in, the page turning reaches hyperdrive."
Foreword Reviews

"Ex–CIA agent and anti-torture whistleblower Kiriakou wrote this book while serving 30 months for disclosing classified information. Part jailhouse memoir, part tradecraft manual, it shares Agency skills that kept him at the top of the prison pecking order—relevant advice for our new age of executive leaks and consequences."
The Washingtonian

"An especially appreciated and uncommon contribution to our national discussion about the value of revealing governmental misconduct despite federal laws prohibiting such exposures, Doing Time Like A Spy deserves as wide an audience and readership as possible."
Midwest Book Review

Kirkus Reviews

2017-03-15
A maverick spy's season in prison.Kiriakou (The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror, 2010) writes that whistleblowing the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program ended his career and led to his prosecution for inadvertently violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act: "I took a plea to one count," he writes. "I didn't fear prison. I was tougher than the CIA thought I was." Still, he was surprised to find that "the training and experience that I had amassed in my CIA career would prepare me to survive and thrive in prison." Kiriakou references 20 famous espionage "rules"—e.g., "admit nothing, deny everything, make counteraccusations"—as being particularly suited to incarceration, given that "prison is a combination of seventh grade, Lord of the Flies, and a mental institution." The author had expected to serve about two years in a federal work camp, but he was placed in a low-security prison. Although Kiriakou's burly physique and black-ops reputation protected him, he still found prison's brutal, unwritten social codes to be challenging: "There were many more weirdos, lunatics, and freaks than there were good guys." He notes that due to persistent segregation, he spent a year dining with the self-proclaimed "Aryans" before being invited to join the "Italians" (organized crime members). While Kiriakou speaks highly of a few helpful friends, he is disparaging of most of the people he encountered behind bars, particularly the high population of pedophiles (scorned by all other inmates) and the guards. "There were certainly some COs I respected," he writes. "The sad truth, however, is that most COs are assholes." Kiriakou confidently portrays himself as a larger-than-life survivor type, justifiably proud of his stance against CIA-sanctioned torture, but the book suffers from being overly cranky and exceedingly anecdotal. An irreverent and unsettling footnote to the war on terror.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940170312672
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Publication date: 05/14/2019
Edition description: Unabridged
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