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“The Counterintelligence Chief” – with FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler
Summary
Alan Kohler (LinkedIn, Website) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss the FBI’s counterintelligence division. He is a recipient of the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Counterintelligence Investigation.
What You’ll Learn
Intelligence
- Counterintelligence vs. Counterespionage
- How the FBI recruit’s foreign agents
- Ideological motivations behind spying
- Effect of technology on counterintelligence
Reflections
- Staying grounded under pressure
- The value of creativity
And much, much more …
Episode Notes
Beginning as a special agent in 1996, Alan Kohler’s extraordinary 28 year long career in the FBI has included serving on the 9/11 Evidence Response Team, supervising counterintelligence and cyber squads at the bustling New York Field Office, overseeing counterintelligence at the Washington Field Office, and time as an assistant legal attaché in London.
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“The Counterintelligence Chief” – with FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler
Andrew Hammond: Welcome to "SpyCast," the official podcast of the International Spy Museum. I'm your host, Dr. Andrew Hammond, the museum's historian and curator. If you seek intelligence on intelligence, you've come to the right place. We're fascinated - in fact, obsessed - by this topic. Coming up next on "SpyCast"...
Alan Kohler: Oh, yeah, yeah. That unit - that exact unit exists.
Andrew Hammond: OK.
Alan Kohler: It's a parallel unit to the criminal serial killer unit. And we use them extensively. So, for example, when I was a supervisor in New York, we had the Ghost Stories cases - the Russian illegals cases up there. We brought the behavioral analysis folks up to New York. We've been looking at these subjects for years. Now we're finally going to get to get in front of them and talk to them. How should we do this? Can we approach it this way? Should we use this wording? There's a
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"Astonishing": Former FBI officials stunned that agents tried to shut down Trump Mar-a-Lago probe
Some FBI officials tried to prevent last year's search of Mar-a-Lago and even sought to shut down the investigation into classified documents found in former President Donald Trump's possession entirely before they were overruled by the Justice Department, according to The Washington Post.
DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents in July feuded over how to handle the classified documents Trump took home to Mar-a-Lago before the unprecedented search of the property in August, according to the report.
Prosecutors at the time claimed that new bevis showed Trump was knowingly hiding secret documents at his private club in Florida, urging FBI agents to conduct a surprise raid. However, two senior FBI officials who would have been in charge of the search tried to push back on the strategi, believing it was too combative, and instead sought to get Trump's permission to search the property, four sourc