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Doing Time Like a Spy

by John Kiriakou

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A prison memoir shaped by intelligence training

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A prison memoir shaped by intelligence training

John Kiriakou’s memoir covers the twenty-three months he spent in prison after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, following his disclosure of the CIA’s use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. The account brings together daily observations of prison life and reflections on the federal prison system. Kiriakou also frames his experience through twenty life skills he says he learned in CIA operational training, and includes material from his blog series “Letters from Loretto.” Together, these elements connect an individual account of incarceration with questions of whistleblowing, institutional power, and life inside a federal prison.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in first-person accounts of federal prison life.
  • Readers exploring whistleblowing and intelligence agencies.
  • Readers interested in memoirs connecting personal experience with the criminal justice system.

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IncarcerationWhistleblowingIntelligence workFederal prison system

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Book overview

Winner of the 2016 PEN First Amendment Award Winner of the 2016 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence Winner of the 2016 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest Winner of the 2013 Peacemaker of the Year Award Winner of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage 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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