{"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":"S2E5 The Abyss","slug":"s2e5-the-abyss","published_at":"2026-06-15T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/s2e5-the-abyss","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115","url":"https://shows.acast.com/john-kiriakous-dead-drop/episodes/s2e5-the-abyss","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a29d3734df224c1a48bf864/media.mp3","summary":"THE BLURB: Frederich Nietsche warned us about staring into the abyss and becoming the monster we most feared. He could have been talking about being in prison. Or being a spy. In this episode, John tells how he increasingly relied on the rules of spying to navitage prison life. But, in becoming a monster in order to survive, the question becomes: when John's sentence ends, will he be able to separate himself from the monster - or will the monster he had to become follow him into the outside worldl? SHOW NOTES If you're enjoying Dead Drop, please check out our other podcasts at Costard & Touchstone ! Your next podcast binge is just a click away! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"THE BLURB: Frederich Nietsche warned us about staring into the abyss and becoming the monster we most feared. He could have been talking about being in pr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2826,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/john-kiriakou-s-dead-drop-7529115/episodes/s2e5-the-abyss/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/s2e5-the-abyss.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}