{"podcast":{"title":"John Kiriakou's Dead Drop","slug":"john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115","podcast_index_feed_id":7529115,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/john-kiriakous-dead-drop","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1759941899317-186901d5-69b8-40c5-9a84-1671d66f0c9c.jpeg","author":"Costard & Touchstone Productions","episode_count":41,"summary":"Join ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou on a very personal deep dive into what makes a spy tick. One of the most famous spies in the whole world, John - a spy with a conscience - blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program after the war on terror and spent 23 months in federal prison for it. As John explains, no spy is ever an \"ex-spy\". Why is that so? Listen to the podcast and you'll understand why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T06:21:49.586029+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115"},"episode":{"title":"Mini Episode 5 Betrayal","slug":"mini-episode-5-betrayal","published_at":"2026-02-13T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/mini-episode-5-betrayal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115","url":"https://shows.acast.com/john-kiriakous-dead-drop/episodes/mini-episode-5-betrayal","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/698a64aad2345f67c3234536/media.mp3","summary":"THE BLURB: Aldrich Ames was a CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the soviet Union and Russia in 1994. Ames was responsible for the arrest and eventual execution of numerous Soviet and Russian officials secretly working on behalf of US intellifence, and had compromised more highly classified CIA assets than any other intelligence officer at the time of his arrest. What caused Rich Ames to betray his craft and his country? Why does any spy go rogue? SHOW NOTES For more great podcasts like Dead Drop, please visit https://costardandtouchstone.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"THE BLURB: Aldrich Ames was a CIA counterintelligence officer who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the soviet Union and Russia in 1994. Ames was re…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":787,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/episodes/mini-episode-5-betrayal/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/mini-episode-5-betrayal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}