049: Todd Hulsey - Nuclear Weapons, Mascheroni Spy Case (Part 2)

FBI Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Government

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Part two 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 49 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:10.6	I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases.
0:16.0	In this episode, part two of a two-part episode,
0:21.0	we speak again with Todd Holzy.
0:24.0	As you recall, Todd is a retired agent who served with the FBI for 15.5 years.
0:30.0	However, he has in total 20 years of federal law enforcement experience.
0:36.0	Prior to obtaining his law degree and joining the Bureau,
0:40.0	Halsey worked for five years as a special agent with the United States Custom Service, now known as ICE, immigration and custom enforcement.
0:50.0	Holzy is interviewed regarding a nuclear espionage case involving Pedro Leonardo Massaroni and his wife Marjorie Massaroni.
1:00.0	Leo Massaroni was a theoretical physicist, formerly employed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Leo had made contact with a foreign country and had offered to sell his expertise and assistance to build a nuclear weapons program for that nation.
1:21.0	Now that he's retired, Todd Holzi runs his own law practice and operates X-fed
1:27.6	productions, an entertainment consulting firm providing technical advice in the areas of national intelligence, law enforcement,
1:36.9	and military operations to authors, screenwriters, video game developers, producers, and directors.
1:44.0	In part one, we had gotten to the point where the Albuquerque Division had engaged a undercover agent posing as a foreign government official to meet with
1:56.8	macaroni and to ascertain what exactly he was offering and to see if those materials contained classified or restricted data.
2:07.0	Before we get to that episode, I just have a few things that I wanted to tell you.
2:12.0	One of them is that if you're listening to this episode before January 11th,
2:17.7	I will be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Mystery Writers of America New York chapter.
2:24.8	I'll be talking about the FBI and how it's perceived in books, TV and movies.
2:31.2	I'm also going to redo my presentation for my special 50th
2:36.5	episode which will be posted just a few days after my presentation. So if you can't make it up to New York, you'll be able to
2:46.2	hear it on the special 50th episode. Over the holidays, I did some basic housekeeping over at my website Jerry Williams.com and that's J-E-R-R-I-W Williams.com and what I did was to categorize each of the podcast episodes so that you can now find
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