In this episode, retired agent Marc Ruskin reviews his false flag espionage undercover role posing as a French operative seeking to purchase uranium enrichment equipment that had been stolen from a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
His undercover work in this case resulted in a former employee at the Oak Ridge Complex being sentenced to six years in prison.
Special Agent (Retired)
Marc Ruskin
3/1985 – 4/2012
Retired agent Marc Ruskin served 27 years with the FBI. During his Bureau career, he worked on espionage cases and spent more than 20 years as an undercover agent, successfully infiltrating a New York Mafia crime family, a Chinese Malaysian heroin organization, a Wall Street trading exchange, and right-wing terrorist groups.
Marc Ruskin was awarded five Commendations from the Director of the FBI for his work. A native French and Spanish speaker, he has worked at several US Embassies, including Paris, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.
As an FBI-certified police instructor, Marc has lectured at universities and law enforcement academies. Since his retirement from the FBI in 2012, he has divided his time between a law practice in New York and extended stays in Liaoning Province, China, where he writes and studies Mandarin.
Marc Ruskin recently published The Pretender – My Life Undercover for the FBI, a true crime narrative about his undercover roles and the FBI’s undercover operations—the procedures, the successes, and the failures.
The following are links to press releases and newspaper articles about the false flag espionage case and Marc Ruskin’s undercover role in the investigation:
FBI Website Press Release – Former Oak Ridge Complex Employee Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Attempting to Sell Restricted Uranium Enrichment Equipment
New York Times – Man Charged In Theft At Former Lab
Knoxville News Sentinel – Former OR janitor gets 6 years in nuke-equipment sting
