Retired FBI Special Agent Michael McGowan served with the FBI for more than 30 years. Early in his career, while assigned to the Philadelphia Division, he worked major drug investigations....Continue reading
Category: Undercover Agents
Episode 081: Marc Ruskin – False Flag Espionage, Classified Materials Theft
Retired agent Marc Ruskin served 27 years with the FBI. During his Bureau career, he spent more than 20 of those years as an undercover agent. Marc successfully infiltrated a...
Episode 078: Bob Hamer – Counterfeit $100 Bills, Operation Smoking Dragon
Retired agent Bob Hamer served in the FBI for 26 years. In this episode, Bob reviews his undercover role in Operation Smoking Dragon, an investigation that dismantled an international smuggling...Continue reading
Episode 073: Juan Jackson – Corrupt Cops, Operation Shattered Shield (Part 2)
Retired agent Juan Jackson served with the FBI for 24 years. Most of his Bureau career were spent as an undercover agent working dangerous assignments in New York, Miami, Atlanta...Continue reading
Episode 072: Juan Jackson – Corrupt Cops, Operation Shattered Shield (Part 1)
Retired agent Juan Jackson served with the FBI for 24 years. Most of his Bureau career was spent as an undercover agent working dangerous assignments in New York, Miami, Atlanta...Continue reading
Episode 065: Bob Hamer – NAMBLA, Undercover Pedophile, and Sex Tourism
Retired agent Bob Hamer served in the FBI for 26 years. While in the Bureau, Hamer, a Marine Corps veteran, worked organized crime, gangs, terrorism, and child exploitation cases. Much of his career...Continue reading
Episode 046: Joe Pistone – Infiltrating the Mafia, Being Donnie Brasco
Retired agent Joe Pistone reviews his assignment infiltrating one of the New York mafia families as Donnie Brasco, his undercover alter ego. The six years he spent on the mission...Continue reading
