Welcome to episode 335 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a case books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.

Today we get to speak to retired agent

Holton Seal, who served in the FBI for 22 years.

In this episode, he reviews his time on the FBI fly team and the

high value detainee interrogation group, also known as the HIG.

During his many deployments around the world,

Colton has had assignments

that most Bureau employees have never experienced,

including being the only FBI agent to have set foot in

bin Laden's compound and house. According to FBI.gov, the fly team is a small highly trained cadre of counterterrorism investigators, including special agents

and intelligence analysts based at FBI headquarters who are ready to be deployed anywhere in the

world on a moment's notice.

Colton Seals' first assignment was to the Anchorage Division in Alaska, where he investigated practically every type of FBI violation there is.

Throughout his FBI career, Colton conducted thousands of interviews and led a variety of specialty teams in high-pressure high-stakes

settings domestically and internationally including the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.

During his time on the fly team,

Colton was asked to lead the efforts for the Higg

and figuring out how we actually talk to subjects and gather accurate information from them.

He led the development of the interviewing and interrogation, I and I training for the Hague, which is recognized as bringing science into the art of interviewing.

While with the Higg, Colton taught I and I courses to thousands of members of the U.S. intelligence community, while also developing

training programs for some of the U.S.'s premier law enforcement agencies and many of

our foreign partners. Colton received the National Intelligence Community Citation

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