The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis

The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War is a non-fiction book by former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer John Kiriakou and investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter about America's behavior and actions during four decades with Iran. The book was published by Simon & Schuster publishing on February 4, 2020. Authors John Kiriakou John Kiriakou was previously an Intelligence analysis and case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counterterrorism, and a consultant to ABC News. On December 2007, he was the first U.S. government official to approve that waterboarding had been used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners, which he characterized as torture. On 2012, Kiriakou became the first CIA officer to be convicted of passing classified information to a reporter that revealed the identity of a CIA officer. He was sentenced to 30 months for this disclosure.