048: Todd Hulsey - Nuclear Weapons, Mascheroni Espionage Case (Part 1)
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
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🗓️ 30 December 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Part one of a two-part episode. Retired agent Todd Hulsey reviews a nuclear weapons espionage case involving Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Marjorie Mascheroni. "Leo" Mascheroni was a theoretical physicist formerly employed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The FBI discovered that he had contacted a foreign country and had offered to sell his expertise and assistance to build a nuclear weapons program for that nation. Hulsey supervised the Albuquerque Division case and the agents, analysts and surveillance group members who gathered the evidence needed to prosecute the Mascheronis for espionage. They both agreed to plead guilty to illegally passing nuclear weapons program documents, which contained information derived from classified and restricted data. He was sentenced to five years and she to one year in prison.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 48 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases and in this |
| 0:16.4 | episode we speak to retired agent Todd Holzy now Todd served with the FBI for 15 and a half years, however he actually has more than 21 years of federal law enforcement service. |
| 0:31.0 | Prior to obtaining his law degree and joining the Bureau, |
| 0:35.0 | Halsey worked for five years as a special agent with the United States |
| 0:39.0 | Custom Service, now known as Ice, Immigration and Custom Enforcement. |
| 0:45.0 | Holzy is interviewed regarding a nuclear espionage case |
| 0:50.0 | involving Pedro, Leonardo, Massaroni and his wife Marjorie Massaroni. |
| 0:58.0 | Leo Massaroni was a theoretical physicist, formerly employed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. |
| 1:08.6 | When the FBI discovered that weapons program for that nation, a preliminary investigation and then full |
| 1:26.0 | investigation was initiated. Holzy supervised the Albuquerque Division case and the agents, analyst, and surveillance group |
| 1:36.8 | members who gathered all the evidence needed to prosecute the Massaronees for espionage. He was eventually sentenced to five years in |
| 1:46.8 | prison and she to one year for a legally passing documents which contained |
| 1:52.4 | information derived from |
| 1:54.3 | classified and restricted data. Post retirement, Todd Holzy, now runs his own law |
| 2:01.7 | practice and operates ex-fed productions, |
| 2:05.8 | an entertainment consulting firm providing technical advice in the areas of |
| 2:10.8 | national intelligence, law enforcement, and military operations to authors, |
| 2:16.7 | screenwriters, video game developers, producers, and directors. |
| 2:22.0 | Now Todd and I talked for over two hours. |
| 2:25.0 | Instead of editing out any of that fascinating information that he provided |
| 2:31.0 | I divided this into two parts. So this is the first part of the two-part |
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