# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kiriakou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:52.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kiriakou"
name: "John Kiriakou"
slug: "john-kiriakou"
description: "John Chris Kiriakou is an American former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, author, and whistleblower who, in 2007, exposed the CIA's use of torture during the war on terror. He was an intelligence analyst and operations officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center and a senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
tagline: "US whistleblower and counter-terrorism consultant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kiriakou_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.72569066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JohnKiriakou"
    handle:    "JohnKiriakou"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kiriakou-aba6711/"
    handle:    "john-kiriakou-aba6711"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2768372/"
    handle:    "nm2768372"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://johnkiriakou.com/"
sources:
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    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون كيرياكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Τζων Κυριάκου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "جان کریاکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83"
    title: "Џон Киријаку"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88"
    title: "جان کریاکو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%8C%E4%BA%9A%E5%BA%93"
    title: "约翰·基里亚库"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6243195"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1305355"
    title: "John Kiriakou"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump