304: Barbara Verica - Tracking Arne Treholt, Soviet Spy
FBI Retired Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Retired Agent Barbara Verica reviews her espionage assignment working as a first-time, untrained, undercover agent (UCA) in Manhattan, gathering intelligence and the evidence to prove that Norwegian diplomat Arne Treholt was selling secrets to the former Soviet Union. The investigation was initiated on behalf of the Norwegian security service who had received information that Treholt, assigned as a member of the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations, was a spy. Barbara’s assignment—move into the apartment next door and track Treholt’s movements. But things quickly became much more complex when Barbara became friends with Treholt's wife. Barbara served in the FBI for 30 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 304 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through |
| 0:19.8 | my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we get to speak to retired agent Barbara Verica, who served in the FBI for 30 years. |
| 0:33.7 | She reviews her assignment, working as a first-time, untrained, undercover agent in Manhattan, |
| 0:41.4 | gathering intelligence and the evidence to prove that Norwegian diplomat Arnie Trayholt |
| 0:47.8 | was selling secrets to the former Soviet Union. |
| 0:51.4 | The investigation was initiated on behalf of the Norwegian Security Service who had received |
| 0:57.2 | information that Trayholt assigned as a member of the Norwegian delegation to the United |
| 1:02.4 | Nations was a spy. |
| 1:04.9 | Barbara's undercover task? |
| 1:07.0 | Move into the apartment next door and track Trayholt's moves. |
| 1:12.4 | However things quickly became much more complicated when Barbara became friends with Trayholt's |
| 1:19.6 | wife, Kari. |
| 1:21.6 | Barbara word counterintelligence matters in New York and the Philadelphia Division for the first |
| 1:27.1 | 15 years of her career and investigated economic crime in the Fort Washington resident agency |
| 1:34.2 | out of the Philadelphia Division for the last 15 years up to her retirement from the FBI. |
| 1:40.1 | For those of you who are thinking that they may have heard this episode before on FBI |
| 1:45.0 | Retired Case File Review, guess what? |
| 1:48.1 | You're right. |
| 1:49.1 | The episode 18, which was removed from the catalog years ago, Barbara talked about this case, |
| 1:56.2 | but she didn't provide the name of the subject, Arnie Trayholt, or the country he was from, |
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