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Nov 22, 2015 · Bob Hamer spent 26 years undercover for the FBI, where he posed as a drug dealer, contract killer, pedophile, degenerate gambler, international weapons dealer, and white-collar criminal.
- Oliver Hotham
Jan 4, 2024 · After Two Decades Undercover, She’s Ready to Tell the Real Story of Human Trafficking. For years, former FBI Special Agent Nikki Badolato led the FBI's Child Exploitation Task Force targeting ...
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- Michael Malone
- Joseph Pistone
- Jack Garcia
- Kiki Camarena
- Jay Dobyns
Michael Malone had all the makings of an undercover agent who would successfully infiltrate Al Capone’s Chicago gang for nearly two years. Malone, whose parents came over from Ireland, grew up in New Jersey and meshed well with its European immigrants, eventually learning to speak Gaelic, Italian, Yiddish and Greek. With his “black Irish” dark hair...
In New York City during the mid-1970s, the FBI investigated a rash of truck hijackings happening each day. The agency assigned agent Joseph “Joe” Pistone to go undercover for six months to find out where the Mob-connected thieves took the stolen cargo. His adopted name was “Donnie Brasco.” He was so effective as a wiseguy that the FBI let him keep ...
Before he succeeded in infiltrating New York’s Gambino crime family, FBI agent Joaquin “Jack” Garcia had to go school. That is, the FBI’s “mob school,” where he received an education in how to hit the ground running with veteran mobsters. His teacher was special agent Nat Parisi. First off, Parisi said, do not carry a wallet – wiseguys carry wads o...
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the late Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to investigate drug trafficking in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the 1980s, is famous as one of the most heroic DEA agents ever. But he is more well-known in death than in life. His torture-murder in Mexico in 1985 took place at the hands of drug cartel bosses with the compl...
For Jay Dobyns, fitting in with the infamous biker gang the Hells Angels for almost two years meant adhering to his undercover alter ego, Jay “Bird” Davis, to the point of obsession. To maintain his cover, he had to divert his mind away from his wife and kids. And it all would be worth it – at least that’s what he thought at the time. Dobyns had hi...
Nov 18, 2020 · Having completed the undercover assignment that took her off the canvas late last season (to coincide with Peregrym’s maternity leave), Maggie we learned has reentered the dating world for the ...
- Matt Webb Mitovich
Jan 13, 2023 · January 13, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. The exterior of FBI headquarters in 2015. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) 7 min. When FBI agents go undercover, they need to know they are backed by a well ...
Jul 1, 2022 · While some undercover operations begin with a simple membership fee (undercover FBI agent Bob Hamer told Vice he began his investigation into one group by paying $35 to join up); most of the time, the agent working undercover needs a confidential informant, or CI, to make introductions. This is usually someone already involved in the criminal ...
Nov 29, 2023 · Conservative commentators are claiming a video compilation shows an undercover federal agent with an earpiece pulling Donald Trump supporters inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. This is...
