327: Jeff Iverson – FBI In the Belly of the Bear, Russia and Central Asia

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Retired agent Jeffrey Iverson reviews his assignments representing the FBI in Russia and Central Asia. He explores obstacles he and his colleagues faced while assigned as Legal Attaché in charge of FBI offices in Moscow and Legat for five former Soviet bloc countries. Jeff shares stories from his book, In The Belly of the Bear, about his first overseas terrorism case and the counterintelligence challenges that traditionally pose a danger to American government officials and/or businesspeople traveling to Russia. Jeff Iverson served in the FBI for twenty-two-years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 327 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:11.8	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the
0:17.7	FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:25.9	retired agent Jeffrey Iverson who served in the FBI for 22 years. In this episode Jeff reviews his assignments
0:37.0	representing the FBI in Russia and Central Asia. He explores the obstacles he and his colleagues faced
0:45.2	while assigned as legal attachets in charge of the FBI's offices in Moscow and in the former Soviet Bloc countries, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
0:59.0	Jeff shares stories about his first terrorism case overseas and discusses the counterintelligence
1:05.5	challenges that traditionally pose a danger to American government officials and
1:11.1	business people traveling to Russia. He also presents parallels
1:15.6	between Russia's return to autocracy and our current American political discourse.
1:22.4	As a street agent in San Francisco American political discourse.
1:22.6	As a street agent in San Francisco working Russian organized crime, Jeff dedicated the first
1:29.5	half of his career to investigations tied to the flood of Russian criminals pouring into the
1:36.0	United States after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. He was promoted to
1:40.8	supervisor of Russian organized crime prior to his overseas league ad assignments.
1:47.1	Throughout the years, Jeff has served as an instructor at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungary, where he taught former
1:56.0	Soviet Block Police Managers strategies to dismantle organized criminal enterprises.
2:02.0	Following his retirement from the FBI, Jeff expanded his expertise through professional
2:07.7	assignments in the former Soviet Union as a senior consultant contractor for Free Group International Solutions
2:16.1	under the former FBI director Louis Freee.
2:19.5	Jeff is the author of In the Belli of the Bear, an FBI journey behind the new iron curtain.
2:27.4	Learn more about Jeff and his book at Iverson Bear.com. Now before we get to the interview I also wanted to remind you
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