Welcome to episode 60 of FBI Retired Case Fall Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime FBI cases. In this episode

we get to speak to retired agent Rick Hahn who served in the FBI for 32 years, six as a clerical employee, and 26 as a special agent.

Throughout his career, Rick was involved in terrorism cases, either as a field investigator or as a forensic specialist in explosives.

Rick is interviewed about the extensive investigation of the domestic terrorist group known as the FALN, a Spanish acronym which in English means the armed forces of national liberation, an extremist organization advocating

for Puerto Rican independence through acts of violence.

The group, active in the 1970s and early 1980s, was credited with

committing more than 100 bombings that caused several deaths, multiple injuries, and millions of dollars in damage.

Rick Hahn also talks about the formation of the first official joint terrorism task forces, JTF's in New York and Chicago.

The FALN was and still is America's most prolific domestic terrorism organization.

In 1984, United States Attorney General William French Smith awarded Rick with the

Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service for his efforts in disrupting

and dismantling the FALN. A documentary about the investigation will be released later in the year.

The film is based on a non-fiction manuscript written by Ricon.

This was a fascinating case review of a domestic terrorist group that I really didn't

know a lot about. But the old TV show FBI files featured this investigation and there'll be a link to that

video and the episode show notes. Before we get to that interview I just have a

couple of things that I want to let you know.

The first is that we are still in the middle of March milestones, which is my giveaway,

celebrating two milestones during the month of March, my 60th birthday

and 500,000 are a half a million episode downloads of FBI retired case file review. Thank you for listening.

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