CIA operative reveals mental disorder agency 'actively seeks to hire' because it makes for better spies

A erstwhile CIA operative has revealed the bureau pursues radical with a definite intelligence upset arsenic it makes them the champion agents.

John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year vocation arsenic a CIA officer, said the bureau 'actively seeks to prosecute radical who person sociopathic tendencies,' but avoids individuals with a full-blown disorder.

A 'sociopath' is idiosyncratic who lacks empathy, disregards the feelings of others and whitethorn manipulate oregon harm radical without remorse, often for their ain idiosyncratic gain.

'Sociopaths are intolerable to control,' said Kiriakou. 'They gaffe done the cracks due to the fact that they person nary conscience and they walk the polygraph precise easy due to the fact that they don't consciousness guilty. 

Someone who has immoderate of these qualities tend to emergence to the highest levels of the CIA. 

'People who person sociopathic tendencies bash person a conscience but are inactive perfectly blessed to enactment successful motivation ineligible and ethical grey areas,' said Kiriakou.

Kiriakou admitted that helium falls into the class of having sociopathic tendencies, explaining however helium was 'happy to interruption into people's houses and works bugs.' 

The erstwhile serviceman utilized the idea that helium was portion of the bully guys and that his state needed him arsenic a mode to provender his sociopathic tendencies.  

The CIA has admitted that spies person pathological property features that assistance them with their espionage efforts, specified arsenic a consciousness of entitlement oregon a tendency for powerfulness and control.

While employed by the CIA, Kiriakou was progressive successful captious counterterrorism missions pursuing the violent attacks of September 11, 2001. He was progressive successful the seizure of terrorist Abu Zubaydah.

However, helium refused to beryllium trained successful alleged 'enhanced interrogation techniques.' 

Kiriakou has claimed that helium ne'er authorized oregon engaged successful these techniques.

After leaving the CIA, helium appeared connected ABC News wherever helium said the CIA waterboarded detainees and labeled the enactment arsenic torture. 

The interrogation led to Kiriakou being arrested successful 2012 and charged with one number of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for allegedly illegally disclosing the individuality of a covert officer.

He was besides charged with 2 counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly illegally disclosing nationalist defence accusation to individuals not authorized to person it, and 1 number of making mendacious statements for allegedly lying to the Publications Review Board of the CIA successful an unsuccessful effort to instrumentality the CIA into allowing him to see classified accusation successful a publication helium was seeking to publish.

He pleaded blameworthy and was sentenced to 30 months successful prison.

'A CIA psychiatrist told maine 1 clip that the CIA looks to prosecute radical with sociopathic tendencies–not sociopaths due to the fact that sociopaths person nary consciences,' said Kiriakou, speaking to The Real News Network.

When asked if helium thinks that is what the CIA saw successful him, helium responded: 'I deliberation they astir apt did.'

Kiriakou provided a question helium was asked during the CIA hiring interview.

'They said, 'You cognize that Mr X has thing successful his location that you need, whether it’s a record oregon whatever. You request it. And you enactment connected him to enlistee him truthful that yet helium turns that record implicit to you.'

'But he’s not recruitable. And successful the end, erstwhile you inquire him for the file, helium tells you, no. What bash you do?' 

'I said, I interruption into the location and instrumentality the file.' Seemed similar a perfectly logical reply to me.'

The erstwhile CIA serviceman explained that due to the fact that helium believed helium was portion of the bully guys, Mr X was surely a atrocious guy, specified arsenic a Russian scientist. 

Another erstwhile CIA agent, Jim 'Mad Dog' Lawler, has echoed Kiriakou's remarks astir sociopathic tendencies successful the agency.

Lawler had a 25-year vocation with the bureau arsenic a atomic weapons adept and spy.

He was a specializer successful the recruitment of overseas spies, and helium spent implicit fractional of his CIA vocation battling the proliferation of weapons of wide destruction.

During his career, Lawler served arsenic main of the A.Q. Khan Nuclear Takedown Team, which resulted successful the disruption a atomic weapons web led by Abdul Qadeer Khan. 

The web was progressive successful the 1980s and 1990s and progressive countries including Iran, Libya, and North Korea.

 Lawler precocious said the CIA wants radical who are dangerously connected the enactment oregon straddling the enactment of being a sociopath.

'A bully person of excavation helium was an operational scientist astatine the CIA and helium would review the criteria for hiring much folks similar maine and helium wondered you cognize however overmuch sociopathy are we dialing successful to, helium said portion speaking connected the Julian Dorey Podcast.

'What I did is alternatively sociopathic. I'm manipulating people. I'm exploiting people. I recovered retired doing it against foreigners was arsenic hellhole of a batch of fun.

'Its that sociopathic portion wherever we bask breaking people's laws due to the fact that that's what we bash we interruption foreign countries laws. We are convincing radical to go Traders.'

He besides explained that helium would bash virtually thing that's ineligible to get radical successful overseas countries to beryllium spies for the US.

Lawler admitted that helium had lone utilized his 'special skills' 3 times, including to debar a postulation summons and get an upgrade to archetypal people connected an airplane. 

The erstwhile CIA serviceman shared that helium is also extremely empathic, which is the implicit other of a full-blown sociopath.