{"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":"S1E13 Hostages","slug":"s1e13-hostages","published_at":"2026-02-02T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/s1e13-hostages","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115","url":"https://shows.acast.com/john-kiriakous-dead-drop/episodes/s1e13-hostages","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/697663926c5100c2bb472a09/media.mp3","summary":"THE BLURB: After Joanne kidnaps John's two sons - instead of making them available for his six weeks summer vacation with them - John uses his espionage skills to track them all down. Hothead that he is, rather than wait for the legal system to work to his benefit, John nearly ruins everything by iniating a \"hostage situation\" of his own. At work, John's time in the penalty box is about to get truncated - as more and more Agency resources get focused on a terrorist quickly growing in prominence on the Agency's radar: Osama bin Laden. 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: After Joanne kidnaps John's two sons - instead of making them available for his six weeks summer vacation with them - John uses his espionage s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1427,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/episodes/s1e13-hostages/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/s1e13-hostages.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}