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

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John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said the agency

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 who have sociopathic tendencies” but avoids people with a full-blown disorder.

A “sociopath” is someone who lacks empathy, ignores the feelings of others, and can manipulate or harm people without remorse, often for personal gain.

“Sociopaths are impossible to control,” Kiriakou said. ‘They escape because they have no conscience and they pass the polygraph very easily because they don’t feel guilty.

Someone who has some of these qualities tends to rise to the highest levels of the CIA.

‘People who have sOciopathic tendencies have a conscience but they are still perfectly happy work in gray moral legal and ethical areas,” Kiriakou said.

Kiriakou admitted that he falls into the category of having sociopathic tendencies and explained that he was “happy to break into people’s houses and plant bugs.”

The former officer used the idea that he was part of the good guys and that his country needed him as a way to feed his sociopathic tendencies.

John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said the agency “actively seeks to hire people who have sociopathic tendencies” but avoids people with a full-blown 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 a CIA employee, Kiriakou participated in critical counterterrorism missions after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was involved in the capture of terrorist Abu Zubaydah.

However, he refused to receive training in so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Kiriakou has claimed that he never authorized or participated in these techniques.

After leaving the CIA, he appeared on ABC News where he said the CIA waterboarded detainees and called the action torture.

The interview led to Kiriakou being arrested in 2012 and charged with one count of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for allegedly illegally revealing the identity of an undercover officer.

He was also charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly unlawfully disclosing national defense information to persons not authorized to receive it, and one count of making false statements for allegedly lying to the CIA’s Publications Review Board in an attempt to failed to trick the CIA into allowing him to include classified information in a book he was trying 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 waterboarded detainees and called the action torture.

After leaving the CIA, he appeared on ABC News (pictured) where he said the CIA waterboarded detainees and called the action torture.

Jim 'Mad Dog' Lawler, who spent 25 years in the CIA, said he would do virtually anything legal to get people in foreign countries to be spies for the United States, but admitted to being extremely empathetic.

Jim ‘Mad Dog’ Lawler, who spent 25 years in the CIA, said he would do virtually anything legal to get people in foreign countries to be spies for the United States, but admitted to being extremely empathetic.

“A CIA psychiatrist once told me that the CIA seeks to hire people with sociopathic tendencies, not sociopaths because sociopaths have no conscience,” said Kiriakou, speaking with The Real News Network.

When asked if he thinks that’s what the CIA saw in him, he responded, “I think they probably did.”

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

“They said, ‘You know Mr.

But you can’t recruit. And in the end, when you ask for the file, he says no. What do you do for a living?’

“I said, I go into the house and take the file.” It seemed like a perfectly logical response to me.

The former CIA officer explained that since he believed he was part of the good guys, Mr. X was surely a bad guy, like a Russian scientist.

Another former CIA agent, Jim ‘Mad Dog’ Lawler, has echoed Kiriakou’s comments about sociopathic tendencies in the agency.

The CIA has 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 a strong sense of responsibility are desirable.

The CIA has 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 a 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 recruiting foreign spies and spent more than half his career at the CIA fighting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

During his career, Lawler served as head of AQ Khan’s Nuclear Decommissioning 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 that the CIA wants people who are dangerously on the line or straddle the line of being a sociopath.

“A good friend of mine was an operational psychologist at the CIA and he was reviewing the criteria for hiring more people like me and wondering how close we are to sociopathy,” he said while speaking at the Julian Dorey Podcast.

‘What I did is quite sociopathic. I’m manipulating people. I’m exploiting people. I found doing it against foreigners was a lot of fun.

‘It’s that sociopathic part where we enjoy breaking people’s laws because that’s what we do: break the laws of foreign countries. We are convincing people to become traders.

He also explained that he would do virtually anything that is legal to get people in foreign countries to be spies for the United States.

Lawler admitted that he had only used his “special abilities” three times, including to avoid a traffic ticket and get an upgrade to first class on a plane.

The former CIA officer shared that he is also extremely empathetic, which is the complete opposite of a full-blown sociopath.

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