Deuce Martinez

Deuce Martinez (born ) is an American intelligence professional. "Deuce" is not his given first name, but a nickname that was used in the first newspaper article naming him.

Identity The first published information about Martinez came from a June 22, 2008 New York Times article written by Scott Shane.

On January 23, 2012, the Department of Justice charged ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou with providing Martinez's name to the New York Times for the story. Scott Shane later wrote that he already knew Martinez' name before he contacted Kiriakou:I asked [Kiriakou] about an interrogator whose name I had heard: Deuce Martinez. He said that they had worked together to catch Abu Zubaydah, and that he would be a great source on Mr. Mohammed, the architect of the Sept. 11 attacks. He was able to dig up the business card Mr. Martinez had given him with contact information at Mitchell Jessen and Associates, the C.I.A. contractor that helped devise the torture program and Mr. Martinez’s new employer. Mr. Martinez, an analyst by training and torturer by trade, was retired and had never served under cover; that is, he had never posed as a diplomat or a businessman while overseas. He had placed his home address, his personal e-mail address, his job as an intelligence officer and other personal details on a public Web site for the use of students at his alma mater. Abu Zubaydah had been captured six years earlier, Mr. Mohammed five years earlier; their stories were far from secret. Mr. Martinez never agreed to talk to me. But a few e-mail exchanges with Mr. Kiriakou as I hunted for his former colleague would eventually turn up in Mr. Kiriakou’s indictment; he was charged with revealing to me that Mr. Martinez had participated in the operation to catch Abu Zubaydah, a fact that the government said was classified. These charges were dropped in exchange for Kiriakou's guilty plea to a leak involving a different CIA agent who was undercover.