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FBI Case File Review

033: Jane Rhodes Wolfe - Puffer Fish Poison Threat

FBI Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Government

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Jane Rhodes Wolfe supervised a Joint Terrorism Task Force in Chicago and oversaw the intake and analysis of suspicious activity reports. She reviews a case that resulted from the report of an attempted purchase of a restricted toxin, known as the puffer fish poison case. During the interview, she also provides tips for the public regarding potential threat indicators of suspicious activities that should be reported to law enforcement. 

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to episode 33 of FBI Retired Case

0:08.4

File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases. In this episode, we get to speak to Jane Rhodes Wolf.

0:20.0

Now, Jane served with the FBI for 20 years. Early in her career she was assigned to the New York

0:26.8

field office where she worked financial investigations and as a member of the evidence

0:32.2

response team ER, a collateral duty, she was deployed to

0:37.0

Yemen following the bombing of the U.S. Cole, and on 9-11, responded to the World Trade Center attacks and ate it victims.

0:45.0

Jane eventually became a member of the pent-bomb or Pentagon bombing investigative team

0:52.0

and she also worked on the investigation of terrorists

0:55.2

Zacharis Masowi. In addition to management assignments at FBI headquarters

1:00.8

in Congressional Affairs and Inspections, Jane began to concentrate on national

1:07.1

security matters.

1:08.9

She supervised the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Chicago and oversaw the intake and analysis of

1:15.2

suspicious activity reports. In this episode she's interviewed about one of

1:20.0

those reports which resulted in the investigation of an attempted purchase of a

1:25.1

restrictive toxin referred to as the puffer fish poison case. During the

1:31.9

interview she also provides tips for the public regarding potential threat

1:36.7

indicators of suspicious activities that should be reported to law enforcement. Jane's last assignment prior to her retirement was

1:45.5

section chief of the exploitation threat section in the Counterterrorism Division.

1:52.1

Now I want to tell you a little bit more about this puffer fish poison case but I don't

1:56.4

want to give anything away. The reason this person attempted to get a hold of this toxin is so bizarre what he planned to do with

2:08.9

it so evil and so I just want you to be able to listen to that and just be amazed as Jane tells this fascinating story as it all unfolds and you get an idea of you know know, how, I don't know what else to say, but demented this person's

2:27.0

mind was.

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