So what to do if you're being followed: Join the CIA and tell your supervisor who'll tell the station Chief that you're being followed so they can formulate an operation to catch/kill the surveillance. Got it.
NOTE: He does not teach you what to do if you’re being followed.. It’s just a story of government ineptitude amongst co-workers who don’t inform each other properly in critical situations. Your tax dollars at work. Aloha.
@@CadetPolovitz Lol he literally said the six or seven people he was talking about were contracted by the Cia. This means that they were paid with American tax dollars.
"Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, 48, of Arlington, Va., was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for revealing to a journalist the identity of a man whose 20-plus-year career as a covert CIA agent had never been disclosed publicly. Kiriakou also admitted in court that he disclosed information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities."
His story here doesn't sound right either. Wouldn't the CIA ask the Pakis to bring Red Helmet in for questioning, or ask them if they suspected Kiriakou and had put him under their own surveillance? Also wouldn't this guy have used the phrase "have you put me under surveillance?" not ask the general - "have you been following me?"
The problem with these egomaniacal secret agent freaks is they get an actual thrill from having no social engagement with real people. They do NOT give a crap about the social issues of foreign countries that they're assigned to, and subscribe to stereotypes in their own country of origin. Do they exhibit empathy and work to bridge misunderstandings between foreigners? Of course not. Pistol go pew pew. Yay I got em! They think their life is literally a movie, and movies are of course marketed off their narcissism and hysteria. They should send in some people armed with nothing but a copy of the book UFO Contact From Iarga to talk with world leaders about the nature of cultural progress and the potential for nuclear Armageddon. Instead, they're all cultist fanboys of the Zeta Reticulan technocratic, fascist conspiracy. They all figure someone is going to wind up being the biggest sellout; might as well be me. Well, when you have no friends and no substantive relationships with anyone, much less God or Jesus, then yes you're going to run into a lot of that.
U-turns can also be a quick indicator. Practically nobody is going to U-turn at the exact same place you are, especially if traffic is low and/or its late at night.
Take 2 turns. Take an observation point in a dead corner from your prior route. Than wait there and observe whos confusingly looking for someone they were following before.
They have a new thing that identifies people who switch off their phones too much -- puts them on a list of potential suspects for crimes not yet discovered (or even committed).
Reality is stranger than fiction, especially in his line of work. So, stop saying things that you don't know about, especially while it denigrates someone else's life/experience.
The real question is why the jumped to killing him. You can't interrogate a dead man. It's more valuable to have a team scoop him up and see what he knows, then kill him after. Would have avoided any confusion about who was doing the following as well.
He made up this story, his body language, never looks down to his left indicating memory recall,instead looks forward and at two points stalls ( during which he’s making up a story) then suddenly spills out info. The but about the hermit, “ I don’t know where you’d buy one “ ( might indicate an agent that doesn’t normally live there thus was hired to f ollow him. Just fore he figures out where he’s going with the story to wrap it up he displays duping delight pleased with his imagination constantly emphasizing key points and raising his eyebrows looking at interviewer to see if the interviewer is buying his story. When your telling a true story you describe details that comes full circle- the bit about the helmet gave him away. At end of 5he story he doesn’t refer back to the helmet, and how that detail was important to his story giving it credibility. He got off on a tangent talking about the helmet while he was deciding using his imagination figuring out where he was going. He. Stalled a lot when talking about the hermit. Using that time to make up his story. I’d like to see if that hotel actually blew up. Two unbelievable things 1- hotel blowing up killing a very specific number of people. It may have happened and he used it to say they were so stupid to want to put him up in it this showing his superior judgement. Nice guy but a narcissist. He knows more and knows best. 2 “ that guy would be in the ground - he’s so nice but can ice someone without hesitation. Yah your penis is big I buy that little hands.
Great instructions! I often have multiple ways to get to places just to break up the monotony. Sometimes there's a place I like to stop along one of the routes etc. I encourage everyone to have at least 3 routes, have 2 or more ways out of your local neighborhood, if you work across town have 1 or 2 ways on surface streets that you know really well. It will avoid traffic at times. Counter surveillance is a good reason, but also you never know when road work or traffic accidents are gonna happen and it's always good to have a backup plan.
He’s such a master of his craft and so conscious of his situational awareness he has his smart watch on his wrist set up to potentially listen to him and track him at any point
Your never really out of “the game”, it was probably his own team trailing him, trying to teach some situational awareness. Killing a tail in a friendly country is not opsec it’s just being stupid. Anyways back to never being out of the game, once you’ve learned to not be tracked by anybody for any reason it doesn’t just go away when you enter civilian world. Old habits die hard. At least that’s what’s I’ve been told by a friend of a friend
@@MikeymoowixLetting a tail go or allowing them to get to you is worse opsec lmao. If this guys a covert officer, the people following him are either one of the people he’s ‘going after,’ or someone from another intelligence service, which is arguably worse. Pakistan was only barely a ‘friendly’ country at the time too. The US frequently conducted raids/ops on both sides of the Af/Pak border.
Dude, this guy is a great talker and storyteller but... his stories are always about how great he is, and of course they are almost always completely unfalsifiable. And finally, for a spy, he sure does talk a lot.
yeah his story about how he knew the marriot would be a target for foreigners and that it was blown up just weeks after he stayed there is like too good to be true, no it didnt blow up before he showed up and it didnt blow up 2 years later, no it was right before he got there, like its more dramatic that way as in a novel and also to establish himself as a super aware and credible spy ect at the start of his story. seems like bullshit to me.
It’s crazy that this showed up in my recommended. I remember when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old (11-12 years ago) going to Borders bookstore in Nile’s Ohio with my mom. I got whatever random children’s book I read back then and she got a book called “The Reluctant Spy”. As we checked out the author came up to us and offered to sign the book. John Kiriakou was that author. I don’t know why this is a random memory that has stuck in the back of my head. I don’t know where the book is now but it just goes to show how small the world is that he showed up here now! Super nice and interesting guy, will definitely be checking out more of his interviews and maybe even looking for that book at my moms house
Hahahahhaha I know can you imagine a CIA secretary lady like “don’t you worry honey I’ll tell the whole office to show up for ya alright? We’ll be rootin for ya big guy! Ever feel nervous or anything you give me a call sweetie I love ya.”
@@hommedetowne4253 are you ready to change this worlds systems so that it no longer destroys itself? Or do you suggest simply trying to survive on an individual basis is this sick world?
@@RyanPerrellaI believe those with the capability to change the reality around them to make it more humane, just and sane, should exert as much effort as they can to change the conditions around them. These who can't but yearn to should develop themselves and their capacities to do so. Those who don't feel that calling or who cannot should basically take your second option. Everyone has their own battle and their own resistance toward insane world systems; some individually, some collectively, some inwardly and some outwardly. What necessary is for people to learn and understand what they can, and cannot, do. And then within their capacity to act on whatever level they're capable of action. That's going to differ from person to person of course
@@hommedetowne4253 well considered, thank you for sharing. I hope to meet you on the path which leads to a complete reformation of society so that all may know and all may benefit from the collective knowledge available to humanity. May we find the the things necessary to make this so.
@@hommedetowne4253 those with this type of capability can only change things temporarily. The earth is very old, and chaos is a natural part of it. As is with the universe. Eventually the earth will be swallowed by the sun.
Just realized a guy who works my shift tailed me again leaving the plant. It's happened more times than I can recall. I'm getting nervous. He splits off at the same point every night and he's back every morning when I arrive at the plant. 2 and 2 is 4 so I guess I know what I have to do.
I remember that Marriott being blown up. I was scheduled to stay there two weeks later. Needless to say, I canged trip plans and went to Karachi instead.
For years, I carried military and high value freight in a 48 foot trailer. Once I saw a car behind me, I stopped at a random truck stop, parked and, closed the curtains, sneaked out of my truck, and found the car in front of the restaurant. I removed the valve stems and left the truck stop after a few minutes. I found out I had disabled a security patrol vehicle. I found out when I got to delivery. The head of security called me, asked how I spotted the car and why I disabled the vehicle. I told him I was nearly hijacked before. I asked if he wanted the valve cores back. He laughed and said no. I asked him to make me aware of when I was being tailed. he did after that. That particular load was bins of French perfume concentrate for reconstituting. I asked the guy on the phone what it was worth. he said enough to have you followed. I used to haul "mystery loads" for the military. That was almost 10 years ago.
Sometimes people don't understand that some actions posing as "surveillance" in reality are intimidation tactics. They want you to know (or think) you are threatened.
True story. My wife and I entered Algeria by land with all the proper documentation in the 1970s were promptly put in jail. I told her that we would be released by the shift change and followed everywhere. We were. Finally, in eastern Algeria, I get up in a restaurant, go over to the tailing agent and give him my itinerary for the next day! You don't have to kill your tail.
Picked up a tail while going through an accident law suite. Noticed them following me making all the turns I was making. 2 days later, same car (not very bright investigator) with wife in car. 4 quick turns and was head on with them and took a pic for my legal team and drove on. Looking back should have never been so aggressive with her in car. As a Marine, I want to thank the Army at Ft McCullum for all the terrorist schools I attended. Never take the same route is for real.
Only ONCE I was for sure being followed lane by lane all the way home after work I drove right to the local Police Station 3 blocks away from my home (after being followed for 35 minutes). He just drove straight past...
He's talking about the crater from the truck explosion and in doing so incriminates his agency, because there was NO crater outside of that building McVey was accused of blowing up.
You know the guy at the ISI the General doesn't like? He rides a motorcycle and has a red helmet. One person following you isn't that hard to detect. It's when they have 10 people following you. You also know that you are not real important if only one guy is surveilling you. :)
@@olegloginov2953 When he told his boss he was being followed, his boss replied "you know what you have to do, right?" (kill him). And John kirakou exclaims how worried and scared he is to kill someone.. Me personally, I'd rather kill someone that I know is following me, than to rip someones nails off torturing them to get intel.. I reckon if youre capable of torturing someone, shooting someone would be a walk in the park. Agree? If so, than his reaction to being tasked to kill surveillance doesnt add up to his experience, temperament, and willingness to kill.
story sounds so embellished. Googled the Mariott bombing in Pakistan, and it wasn't 156 killed, then the rest of the story just sounded fishy. Prob told the story so many times that he's perfected the BS, when all that really happened was he saw a guy with a red helmet.
When working for the CIA you don’t want to end up like William Buckley, Beirut station chief who was kidnapped in 1984, tortured for something like 18 months then finally murdered. They figured he probably gave up every bit of information he had stashed in his gray matter under that extreme and continuous duress.
From my experience doing PSD, it gave me PTSD….😂 you won’t ever lose your hyper vigilance…. Your knowledge of social dynamics… You will spot the dumbest things, the weirdest things. most of the time everything is fine…. But constantly war gaming every scenario, scanning faces, waistlines, and mannerisms or movements, noting egress routs, or avenues of approach … it doesn’t leave you…. And I love it.
I am a public sector employee, active in my union for decades. I went somewhere the U.S. government isnt too fond of in 2001 and have been under surveillance on and off ever since. Not a fun experience. The day after September 11th, a guy snuck up on me in a pizza shop and ran. I am a runner. Lol. I beat him to the door. He looked scared to death when I blocked the door. Asked him who he was, why he was following me, et cetera. Gave me some lame nonsensical excuse and disappeared into the darkness. And its not like I can tell many people bc they just look at you like your nuts because they aren't well-read, have largely led simple lives, haven't travelled overseas much, if at all, have illusions the government is here to "protect" them, et cetera.
The US government doesn't tail random US citizens on home soil. Not only because it's illegal, but also they don't remotely have the resources for that. And yet there are millions of paranoids with mental health issues who are convinced the "deep state" is personally tracking them. Every helicopter is the CIA. Unless you're secretly a foreign agent, I promise you're not that interesting.
Pro tip: Don’t follow his advice. I’m currently on trial and facing a life sentence in federal prison for exterminating a guy who was following me. For a couple of years, the guy had watched me five days a week when I left home for work. Sometimes his vehicle was down the street, other times it was across the street. After watching this video, I knew what I had to do. So one morning I waited for him outside my house, and when he approached in his cleverly disguised costume and truck, I did what was needed. Well, it turned out I was wrong, he truly was my mailman.
fascinating stuff. When I hear things like this, I think about how these kinds of situations are people's actual life. And some days I get angered when my belt loop gets caught on a door handle.
Pretty sure being followed by enemy groups in Pakistan is vastly different from.being followed by a predator in America. Two completely diff situations that will require diff skill sets. For a non political domestic safety, I'd rather you have an FBI expert. The CIA expert would come in handy if you get picked up by cartels in Latin America or child soliders in Africa.
I was born and grew up in a 3rd world country where wars and riots happened all the time so let me tell you what this guy didn't 1. You have to live in an environment that is by itself dangerous - when you realize you are prey then you'll start watching out for predators instinctively. 2. Get used to what is around you and pay attention always - life is habit for everyone so small odd changes are massive warnings. 3. Don't ever shrug off warnings - learn to school your face so you don't draw attention or look like an idiot who's always paranoid 4. Don't let off by your face that you've noticed anything out of the ordinary or you may very well invite immediate action against you. 5. NEVER assume people have your back. Always think and assume that you are entirely alone and it will direct your actions accordingly.
This guy’s story doesn’t check out at all. He said 156 people died in the Marriott bombing, 54 died. And it happened in 2008 so it was 6 years, not 6 weeks after he said. “He was an old man back in 2002.”
I was over there in 2007 as a night vision goggle combat tactics instructor. We used to eat at the Marriott on our days off several times a month. Everybody knew it was a target. We had gone through PDSS and numerous courses at Bragg before we went over there, including counter surveillance we always had three different routes every day over to the airfield, a green route, a yellow route and a red route. We had under cover Pakistan ISI with eyes on everything..
As a basic nobody, the only people likely to follow me are muggers, and I don't really have anyone I could report it to (the police are utterly useless), so I guess my only option would be to go somewhere with a lot of people. My preferred strategy would be to simply never go to the sort of places where you're likely to get mugged in the first place. That's why I live in the middle of nowhere, my nearest neighbor is several miles away, and going into town is like planning an expedition to Everest.
Break your patterns... I once found myself getting followed by a black, tinted windowed SUV around a small town I'd been frequenting a few years ago, only to have them follow me out of town for the 30 minute drive home. ...I turned off into a rich, "gated community" I'd never been to half way through the trip (stopping at the first house) just to see what would happen. They slowed down momentarily, but kept going. There's no shortage of creeps in this world - both civilian & authoritatively affiliated, - professional & amateur. ...I dislike either one.
I once knew a guy just like this. And on tuesdays they gave him jello and let him watch and extra episode of Burn Notice on the big TV in the sun room.
How to tell if youre being followed as a civilian: Take 4 left turns (or right). NO ONE is driving in circles. If someone follows you through 4x of the same direction turn they are following you.
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So what to do if you're being followed: Join the CIA and tell your supervisor who'll tell the station Chief that you're being followed so they can formulate an operation to catch/kill the surveillance. Got it.
😂😂😂
Ha, yeah, that’s about it.
Bro fr I was thinking the same thing🤣
Thinking the same thing about this click-bait title. 😕
Yyyyyeah
NOTE: He does not teach you what to do if you’re being followed..
It’s just a story of government ineptitude amongst co-workers who don’t inform each other properly in critical situations. Your tax dollars at work. Aloha.
i forgot that the only reasons why i came to this video was to learn what to do lol
story was captivating
1. Take different routes. It’s all I got so far
I doubt there are many Pakistani tax payers here.
@@CadetPolovitz Lol he literally said the six or seven people he was talking about were contracted by the Cia. This means that they were paid with American tax dollars.
Thank you time to click away from this video!..
"I'm not staying in the Marriot! Are you nuts! So I stayed there one night." 😂😎
HAHa
Balls of steel 😂😂😂
Suspect number 1
Also has a smart watch that records every single word he says. VERY SMART! MUCH SPY!
@@Windex314 Super smart
"Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, 48, of Arlington, Va., was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for revealing to a journalist the identity of a man whose 20-plus-year career as a covert CIA agent had never been disclosed publicly. Kiriakou also admitted in court that he disclosed information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities."
Sounds like he tried to cash in like Andrew Bustamante 😂
Good. With what he's done he probably should be in jail more than that.
His story here doesn't sound right either. Wouldn't the CIA ask the Pakis to bring Red Helmet in for questioning, or ask them if they suspected Kiriakou and had put him under their own surveillance? Also wouldn't this guy have used the phrase "have you put me under surveillance?" not ask the general - "have you been following me?"
That CIA assets was working for Chinese and selling them classified documents for shares in Chinese tech company.
@@xenon6947 So it's a good idea to tell the public about a double-agent?
This guy is the neighbor you have that you regret starting a conversation with
Right. For an ex-spy he talks an awful lot. And none of what he says can be confirmed, bc his former coworkers will of course not talk.
If this guy was my neighbor I'd sit and have a beer with him on a regular basis. Even if everything he says is bs it's good sh*t to know.
😂😂😂
The problem with these egomaniacal secret agent freaks is they get an actual thrill from having no social engagement with real people. They do NOT give a crap about the social issues of foreign countries that they're assigned to, and subscribe to stereotypes in their own country of origin. Do they exhibit empathy and work to bridge misunderstandings between foreigners? Of course not. Pistol go pew pew. Yay I got em! They think their life is literally a movie, and movies are of course marketed off their narcissism and hysteria.
They should send in some people armed with nothing but a copy of the book UFO Contact From Iarga to talk with world leaders about the nature of cultural progress and the potential for nuclear Armageddon. Instead, they're all cultist fanboys of the Zeta Reticulan technocratic, fascist conspiracy. They all figure someone is going to wind up being the biggest sellout; might as well be me. Well, when you have no friends and no substantive relationships with anyone, much less God or Jesus, then yes you're going to run into a lot of that.
idk what ur talking about, that story was interesting
If you're ever followed, remember that your team has got your back. "What if you don't have a team behind you?" "Yeah... About that."
Everyone should have a team.
Just make 3 lefts. If they're still there then they're following you 😂
2 left turns.
@@HighSpeedNoDrag4 if you want to be real sure
U-turns can also be a quick indicator. Practically nobody is going to U-turn at the exact same place you are, especially if traffic is low and/or its late at night.
Take 2 turns.
Take an observation point in a dead corner from your prior route. Than wait there and observe whos confusingly looking for someone they were following before.
Pretty much yeah
Interesting story, but the title is misleading click-bait.
He’s pretty clear about what to do
@@yucafries7681 OK, please sum it up for me.
No is not
@@yucafries7681OK, then please explain to me what his advice was.
@@ModernPlague lol he said you gotta kill the guy 🤦♂️
They didn't take the surveillance away, they just put some more experienced packywacky on the job.
yepper
This guy is perfect for recruitment, it’s SO hard to believe him 😂 reminds me of a certain episode of the simpson’s treehouse of horror
The aliens did something to homer so no one would believe him
Your phone is your biggest surveillance
They have a new thing that identifies people who switch off their phones too much -- puts them on a list of potential suspects for crimes not yet discovered (or even committed).
Yeah put your cell phone in a metal cookie can😂no signal
@@VVentures-ze8dk yes, the algorithm senses who is ducking big brother 🤣
@@crimony3054 Turning off your phone has no effect, it continues to transmit. You have to take out the battery.
@@stejer211 and if you remove the battery, it bumps you up the surveillance list as trying to duck big brother.
If you're being followed you just pull over, step out of the car and take your shirt off and say "What do you wanna do huh?"
I mean...
It's the Randy Marsh strat
LMAO!!
Sounds legit 😂
the american way
This dude’s surveillance watch going off in the middle of this is wholly confusing
Red helmet for surveillance?! Bright?! LOL
For some reason this guy just gives me the vibes that he is embellishing the story and facts,
R u out of your
@@lawrencelortie R u able to finish a sentence?
Reality is stranger than fiction, especially in his line of work. So, stop saying things that you don't know about, especially while it denigrates someone else's life/experience.
You dont have to embellish stories when you work for the CIA, stationed in a hostile country during war time.
He is/was CIA wtf do you expect truth? hahahahhhhaa ah...
I'm nobody.. so if somebody is following me, they're even more less important than I am😂😂
Yet you never know who might want to follow or watch you. Even if you are an unknown.
Great... the next time I'm being followed, I'll report it to my CIA handler. Excellent advice!
Did he just teach us that if you are being followed… kill ‘em? 😂
if they do it 3 times, yes
@@makeitpay8241 sir this is my bike route.. why are you pulling out a g-
I like the part where he told me what to do when being followed
His description of still dealing with the stress of that event; but different settings/manner is a classic example of PTSD!
The real question is why the jumped to killing him. You can't interrogate a dead man.
It's more valuable to have a team scoop him up and see what he knows, then kill him after. Would have avoided any confusion about who was doing the following as well.
Exactly… I’m not buying his story. Doesn’t ring true at all.
Because its a fake story
@@dostonjones7183 You are on to something
He made up this story, his body language, never looks down to his left indicating memory recall,instead looks forward and at two points stalls ( during which he’s making up a story) then suddenly spills out info. The but about the hermit, “ I don’t know where you’d buy one “ ( might indicate an agent that doesn’t normally live there thus was hired to f ollow him. Just fore he figures out where he’s going with the story to wrap it up he displays duping delight pleased with his imagination constantly emphasizing key points and raising his eyebrows looking at interviewer to see if the interviewer is buying his story. When your telling a true story you describe details that comes full circle- the bit about the helmet gave him away. At end of 5he story he doesn’t refer back to the helmet, and how that detail was important to his story giving it credibility. He got off on a tangent talking about the helmet while he was deciding using his imagination figuring out where he was going. He. Stalled a lot when talking about the hermit. Using that time to make up his story. I’d like to see if that hotel actually blew up. Two unbelievable things 1- hotel blowing up killing a very specific number of people. It may have happened and he used it to say they were so stupid to want to put him up in it this showing his superior judgement. Nice guy but a narcissist. He knows more and knows best. 2 “ that guy would be in the ground - he’s so nice but can ice someone without hesitation. Yah your penis is big I buy that little hands.
@@lenwelch2195 You can't use eye direction as an indicator of truth.
It's not.
Great instructions! I often have multiple ways to get to places just to break up the monotony. Sometimes there's a place I like to stop along one of the routes etc. I encourage everyone to have at least 3 routes, have 2 or more ways out of your local neighborhood, if you work across town have 1 or 2 ways on surface streets that you know really well. It will avoid traffic at times. Counter surveillance is a good reason, but also you never know when road work or traffic accidents are gonna happen and it's always good to have a backup plan.
Video Title: CIA Agent Teaches What to Do if You’re Being Followed
Me: Well shit I guess ill just go make friends with a Pakistani one star general
He’s such a master of his craft and so conscious of his situational awareness he has his smart watch on his wrist set up to potentially listen to him and track him at any point
He’s out the game.
Your never really out of “the game”, it was probably his own team trailing him, trying to teach some situational awareness. Killing a tail in a friendly country is not opsec it’s just being stupid. Anyways back to never being out of the game, once you’ve learned to not be tracked by anybody for any reason it doesn’t just go away when you enter civilian world. Old habits die hard. At least that’s what’s I’ve been told by a friend of a friend
His craft is telling you how good he is.
@@MikeymoowixLetting a tail go or allowing them to get to you is worse opsec lmao. If this guys a covert officer, the people following him are either one of the people he’s ‘going after,’ or someone from another intelligence service, which is arguably worse. Pakistan was only barely a ‘friendly’ country at the time too. The US frequently conducted raids/ops on both sides of the Af/Pak border.
Why does he have too worry 😂😂 he works for the very agency that turns those and uses those as SPY devices? , that and the NSA Lmfao
Dude, this guy is a great talker and storyteller but... his stories are always about how great he is, and of course they are almost always completely unfalsifiable. And finally, for a spy, he sure does talk a lot.
yeah his story about how he knew the marriot would be a target for foreigners and that it was blown up just weeks after he stayed there is like too good to be true, no it didnt blow up before he showed up and it didnt blow up 2 years later, no it was right before he got there, like its more dramatic that way as in a novel and also to establish himself as a super aware and credible spy ect at the start of his story. seems like bullshit to me.
Speaking of a great storyteller and completely unfalsifiable, UFO guy Dr Steven Greer. He tells wild stories with lots of details.
I know right
2:23 CIA agent wears a smart watch that is always listening while talking about surveillance. The irony. 😆
It’s crazy that this showed up in my recommended. I remember when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old (11-12 years ago) going to Borders bookstore in Nile’s Ohio with my mom. I got whatever random children’s book I read back then and she got a book called “The Reluctant Spy”. As we checked out the author came up to us and offered to sign the book. John Kiriakou was that author. I don’t know why this is a random memory that has stuck in the back of my head. I don’t know where the book is now but it just goes to show how small the world is that he showed up here now! Super nice and interesting guy, will definitely be checking out more of his interviews and maybe even looking for that book at my moms house
John has been recruiting you ever since.
Very big and very small world at the same time
He must’ve been able to follow you because you weren’t using the techniques
My guy. You just gave us your age, name, and where you grew up. 🤣😂🤣😂 You didn’t listen to that spy book??
You witnessed CIA Certified pickup moves!
This is so adorable, they were gonna hold his hand on his first time, aww 😂😂😂
Well the rest of all of us on the entire planet cant be the super hero you are so cut us all a break.
@@LK-bz9sk definitely a super villain in my imagination lol
Hahahahhaha I know can you imagine a CIA secretary lady like “don’t you worry honey I’ll tell the whole office to show up for ya alright? We’ll be rootin for ya big guy! Ever feel nervous or anything you give me a call sweetie I love ya.”
These intelligence guys are never lacking in confidence 😂
They do need to be somewhat narcissistic with sociopathic tendencies-! How do you convince someone to “save the world and tell no one?”
@@alwaysyouramanda That's a fair point!
@@alwaysyouramanda CORRECT YUP
@@alwaysyouramandaYes, they’re definitely saving the world. 🤡
This conversation is beyond disturbing, what a sick world.
It's not sick. It's reality. It's how the world really works.
@@hommedetowne4253 are you ready to change this worlds systems so that it no longer destroys itself? Or do you suggest simply trying to survive on an individual basis is this sick world?
@@RyanPerrellaI believe those with the capability to change the reality around them to make it more humane, just and sane, should exert as much effort as they can to change the conditions around them. These who can't but yearn to should develop themselves and their capacities to do so. Those who don't feel that calling or who cannot should basically take your second option.
Everyone has their own battle and their own resistance toward insane world systems; some individually, some collectively, some inwardly and some outwardly. What necessary is for people to learn and understand what they can, and cannot, do. And then within their capacity to act on whatever level they're capable of action.
That's going to differ from person to person of course
@@hommedetowne4253 well considered, thank you for sharing. I hope to meet you on the path which leads to a complete reformation of society so that all may know and all may benefit from the collective knowledge available to humanity. May we find the the things necessary to make this so.
@@hommedetowne4253 those with this type of capability can only change things temporarily. The earth is very old, and chaos is a natural part of it. As is with the universe. Eventually the earth will be swallowed by the sun.
His watch 🤣 “ I don’t know how to respond to that! “ 😂
YESSSSS THANK YOU FOR BRINGING JOHN BACK!!!✅
"general, are you following me???"
General: "I don't even know you bro."
The irony of talking about surveillance when his phone watch is listening to him. But I really like this guy thank you for posting this
...but you aren't at all concerned with the giant microphone right in front of his face?
26000 people so far have seen this and think "i really need to know what to do if someone follows me"
And now we all know what needs to be done.
@@daveycrocker4466 But it's illegal to kill stalkers unless you're a secret agent.
I always wondered what it meant when another person taps his foot in the bathroom stall. "Hey! You wanna?" "What?" LOLOL
You put on "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys.
Then you get on the opposite side of the highway.
John is very pleasant to listen to. It has been a long time on TH-cam where I feel engaged and enjoyed the perspectives and memories.
Scary stuff man. Big brother is always watching
@@TrippyMane405Yea, it’s interesting once you realize how likely it is that you’ve been close to one of these agents.
Just realized a guy who works my shift tailed me again leaving the plant. It's happened more times than I can recall. I'm getting nervous. He splits off at the same point every night and he's back every morning when I arrive at the plant. 2 and 2 is 4 so I guess I know what I have to do.
oh my word !!.. thanks for that !!.. thank goodness that Im not the only one living this nightmare !!!
That surveillance guy might be in the ground either way because he didn't seem all too competent.
I remember that Marriott being blown up. I was scheduled to stay there two weeks later. Needless to say, I canged trip plans and went to Karachi instead.
For years, I carried military and high value freight in a 48 foot trailer. Once I saw a car behind me, I stopped at a random truck stop, parked and, closed the curtains, sneaked out of my truck, and found the car in front of the restaurant. I removed the valve stems and left the truck stop after a few minutes. I found out I had disabled a security patrol vehicle. I found out when I got to delivery. The head of security called me, asked how I spotted the car and why I disabled the vehicle. I told him I was nearly hijacked before. I asked if he wanted the valve cores back. He laughed and said no. I asked him to make me aware of when I was being tailed. he did after that. That particular load was bins of French perfume concentrate for reconstituting. I asked the guy on the phone what it was worth. he said enough to have you followed. I used to haul "mystery loads" for the military. That was almost 10 years ago.
I wish I could not distrust him. It's all BS
You just pull out the burner and start blasting 😂😂😂 no reason to be following me
This gets them every time, drive until you reach a roundabout, then do about 3-4 loops you will see right away who’s following you or not
The only problem is that sets a pattern, and before you know it, there you are, grenaded in the roundabout
@@TheMrVogue hahahaha
Drive in a circle, faster and faster until YOU are FOLLOWING THEM. 😂😂😂
Sometimes people don't understand that some actions posing as "surveillance" in reality are intimidation tactics.
They want you to know (or think) you are threatened.
True story. My wife and I entered Algeria by land with all the proper documentation in the 1970s were promptly put in jail. I told her that we would be released by the shift change and followed everywhere. We were. Finally, in eastern Algeria, I get up in a restaurant, go over to the tailing agent and give him my itinerary for the next day! You don't have to kill your tail.
Picked up a tail while going through an accident law suite. Noticed them following me making all the turns I was making. 2 days later, same car (not very bright investigator) with wife in car. 4 quick turns and was head on with them and took a pic for my legal team and drove on. Looking back should have never been so aggressive with her in car. As a Marine, I want to thank the Army at Ft McCullum for all the terrorist schools I attended. Never take the same route is for real.
He didn't teach me what to do... whats with the title?
Damn it I suspected.
You have to decipher the Morse Code that he's blinking to get the real red meat.
Make 3 lefts. If they're still there then they're following. There you go
@@larl-earson Maybe re-read the title of the video?
@@MakeMeMiko Ok then drive to a police station
Only ONCE I was for sure being followed lane by lane all the way home after work I drove right to the local Police Station 3 blocks away from my home (after being followed for 35 minutes). He just drove straight past...
Good shit my boi
He's talking about the crater from the truck explosion and in doing so incriminates his agency, because there was NO crater outside of that building McVey was accused of blowing up.
You know the guy at the ISI the General doesn't like? He rides a motorcycle and has a red helmet.
One person following you isn't that hard to detect. It's when they have 10 people following you. You also know that you are not real important if only one guy is surveilling you. :)
Ah yes the Mary Yacht. Never stay there.
Always have your head on a swivel because the world does not revolve around you.
By interrogation of "fresh" prisoners as he called them, he actually means torture.
Thats what I thought at first, but wouldn't torturing someone be more terrifying than killing someone who you believe is an immediate threat?
@@SurfMastery-kz6je Not sure what you mean.
@@olegloginov2953 When he told his boss he was being followed, his boss replied "you know what you have to do, right?" (kill him). And John kirakou exclaims how worried and scared he is to kill someone..
Me personally, I'd rather kill someone that I know is following me, than to rip someones nails off torturing them to get intel..
I reckon if youre capable of torturing someone, shooting someone would be a walk in the park. Agree? If so, than his reaction to being tasked to kill surveillance doesnt add up to his experience, temperament, and willingness to kill.
@@SurfMastery-kz6je Aaah, well I'm sure some CIA operatives love to torture. Not all, but many do.
Keeping in mind that he blew the whistle on CIA torture, that might be possible, but he didn't do it or approve of it.
Pretty simple: Call your people, drive outside of the city, surround the followers and offer them cold piece of cake.
story sounds so embellished. Googled the Mariott bombing in Pakistan, and it wasn't 156 killed, then the rest of the story just sounded fishy. Prob told the story so many times that he's perfected the BS, when all that really happened was he saw a guy with a red helmet.
Mr. Red Helmet was told " Do not follow with Mr. John Kirakou, you will get Pew Pew"
The real question is what to do when you aren't being followed
I'm sure he's got plenty of followers now, the way he talks.
imagine a foreign agent saying he did this on american soil.. oh but when we do it.. hypocrites.. and i’m american too!!!
They do it though
CIA is the biggest terrorist organization in the world
@@jbb5266 Foreign and domestic, surely.
um, you mean like the chinese police stations in nyc? you think this doesn't happen in the usa? lol
Feel free to go to other soil and see how life is
This showed up while I’m watching Condor
I usually skip your videos because of the intro music but love the content and glad I didn’t!
When working for the CIA you don’t want to end up like William Buckley, Beirut station chief who was kidnapped in 1984, tortured for something like 18 months then finally murdered. They figured he probably gave up every bit of information he had stashed in his gray matter under that extreme and continuous duress.
From my experience doing PSD, it gave me PTSD….😂 you won’t ever lose your hyper vigilance…. Your knowledge of social dynamics…
You will spot the dumbest things, the weirdest things. most of the time everything is fine…. But constantly war gaming every scenario, scanning faces, waistlines, and mannerisms or movements, noting egress routs, or avenues of approach … it doesn’t leave you…. And I love it.
It really throws me off when he says”we all” like they have company meetings 😅
"I'm gonna kill him"
For following you around? Lol that's illegal.
That’s all right, neither was that “interrogation” they were there to do.
I am a public sector employee, active in my union for decades. I went somewhere the U.S. government isnt too fond of in 2001 and have been under surveillance on and off ever since. Not a fun experience. The day after September 11th, a guy snuck up on me in a pizza shop and ran. I am a runner. Lol. I beat him to the door. He looked scared to death when I blocked the door. Asked him who he was, why he was following me, et cetera. Gave me some lame nonsensical excuse and disappeared into the darkness. And its not like I can tell many people bc they just look at you like your nuts because they aren't well-read, have largely led simple lives, haven't travelled overseas much, if at all, have illusions the government is here to "protect" them, et cetera.
THAT was an attempted "HIT"... someone didn't KNOW you could run!!
The US government doesn't tail random US citizens on home soil. Not only because it's illegal, but also they don't remotely have the resources for that. And yet there are millions of paranoids with mental health issues who are convinced the "deep state" is personally tracking them. Every helicopter is the CIA. Unless you're secretly a foreign agent, I promise you're not that interesting.
@@TheSpritz0 The Big Boys are cats, and think we'e all mice. Been there and lived.
Wow, this really hits different.
Pro tip: Don’t follow his advice. I’m currently on trial and facing a life sentence in federal prison for exterminating a guy who was following me. For a couple of years, the guy had watched me five days a week when I left home for work. Sometimes his vehicle was down the street, other times it was across the street. After watching this video, I knew what I had to do. So one morning I waited for him outside my house, and when he approached in his cleverly disguised costume and truck, I did what was needed. Well, it turned out I was wrong, he truly was my mailman.
Ah okay so just call up my local private military contractors got it 👌
Always takes different routes home. Goes to the same place though. Genius.
reminder that the CIA can see your phone camera and hear through your microphone at all times
fascinating stuff. When I hear things like this, I think about how these kinds of situations are people's actual life. And some days I get angered when my belt loop gets caught on a door handle.
How could you tell if the helmet was red when you say it was dark when you arrived and when you left ? I am intrigued !!!
Spy: Confronts surveillance team.
Surveillance team: We want to talk to you about your extended auto warranty.
Spy chief: Kill the surveillance team.
As a British born Pakistani I’m enjoying his Pakistan stories.
Pure gold.
2:24 "Hey, Internet-connected always-listening device that sends everything I say to the enemies of the US - oops, I'm sorry"
Its true about not forgetting once your brain is programmed to look for patterns and details.
The smart watch😂
Pretty sure being followed by enemy groups in Pakistan is vastly different from.being followed by a predator in America. Two completely diff situations that will require diff skill sets. For a non political domestic safety, I'd rather you have an FBI expert. The CIA expert would come in handy if you get picked up by cartels in Latin America or child soliders in Africa.
I was born and grew up in a 3rd world country where wars and riots happened all the time so let me tell you what this guy didn't
1. You have to live in an environment that is by itself dangerous - when you realize you are prey then you'll start watching out for predators instinctively.
2. Get used to what is around you and pay attention always - life is habit for everyone so small odd changes are massive warnings.
3. Don't ever shrug off warnings - learn to school your face so you don't draw attention or look like an idiot who's always paranoid
4. Don't let off by your face that you've noticed anything out of the ordinary or you may very well invite immediate action against you.
5. NEVER assume people have your back. Always think and assume that you are entirely alone and it will direct your actions accordingly.
This guy’s story doesn’t check out at all. He said 156 people died in the Marriott bombing, 54 died. And it happened in 2008 so it was 6 years, not 6 weeks after he said. “He was an old man back in 2002.”
I was over there in 2007 as a night vision goggle combat tactics instructor. We used to eat at the Marriott on our days off several times a month. Everybody knew it was a target. We had gone through PDSS and numerous courses at Bragg before we went over there, including counter surveillance we always had three different routes every day over to the airfield, a green route, a yellow route and a red route. We had under cover Pakistan ISI with eyes on everything..
Cool story thanks for breaking it up into smaller pieces.
Hes like an older AliensRock lmao
As a basic nobody, the only people likely to follow me are muggers, and I don't really have anyone I could report it to (the police are utterly useless), so I guess my only option would be to go somewhere with a lot of people.
My preferred strategy would be to simply never go to the sort of places where you're likely to get mugged in the first place.
That's why I live in the middle of nowhere, my nearest neighbor is several miles away, and going into town is like planning an expedition to Everest.
How would he have killed him without being arrested by local police and causing an international scandal?
LOL you’re so funny 😂
He'd be in the ground and they'd say, "see, told you he's not that nice."
Break your patterns... I once found myself getting followed by a black, tinted windowed SUV around a small town I'd been frequenting a few years ago, only to have them follow me out of town for the 30 minute drive home. ...I turned off into a rich, "gated community" I'd never been to half way through the trip (stopping at the first house) just to see what would happen.
They slowed down momentarily, but kept going.
There's no shortage of creeps in this world - both civilian & authoritatively affiliated, - professional & amateur. ...I dislike either one.
VOLUNTEER TO BE A CONTRACTOR IS LIKE SAYING VOLUNTEERING TO GET MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT
I live in Oklahoma. If im followed, ill just call one of my closest relatives and tell them im bringing unwanted guests.
It’s like the retired cops who write expose types…they were usually the worst cops on the beat etc…sus
I once knew a guy just like this. And on tuesdays they gave him jello and let him watch and extra episode of Burn Notice on the big TV in the sun room.
So wait, what do we do if we're being followed? We must tell our Supervisor, and the Station Chief? I don't see how this will help me.
Drive to the closest police station....lol.
How to tell if youre being followed as a civilian:
Take 4 left turns (or right).
NO ONE is driving in circles. If someone follows you through 4x of the same direction turn they are following you.
Or just as lost as you are 😂
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