Key Takeaways

• Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou made his runway debut in Elena Velez’s Spring 2027 NYFW show, carrying a Watergate book for one of his two looks.
• Kiriakou publicly exposed the CIA’s use of waterboarding, served 30 months in prison for disclosing a covert officer’s identity, and recently became a viral TikTok figure through edited interview clips.
• Velez continued her provocative casting streak by also featuring viral Empire State Building climbers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov, who closed the show.

Former CIA counterterrorism officer and George W. Bush-era whistleblower John Kiriakou, who went viral on TikTok earlier this year, just made his New York Fashion Week runway debut.

At the showcase for Elena Velez’s yr009 collection last week, the fashion designer recruited Kiriakou among others to model the new ready-to-wear Spring 2027 pieces. The 62-year-old CIA whistleblower, who is most famous for disclosing the extreme torture techniques that CIA officers used at black sites during interrogations, walked down the catwalk with a book about Watergate under his arm for one of his two looks.

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While Kirakou left the CIA in 2004, he was indicted in 2012 for blowing the whistle on the torture techniques and disclosing CIA officer identities to reporters in the process. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and has since received multiple...

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