Welcome to episode 74 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

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

We get to speak to a retired agent and Dr. Raymond Betvinnis, PhD, who served in the FBI for 25 years.

He spent most of his career,

concentrating on counterintelligence and counter terrorism matters. In this episode, Ray Bet Venice reviews the history of the FBI's

counterintelligence program and past and current investigations of Russian interference in US policies.

During his Bureau career, Ray Bat Venice's assignments included stints at the Washington Field Office and the Intelligence

Division's training unit at FBI headquarters.

Later he served in the Baltimore Division as a supervisory special agent of a foreign

counterintelligence squad where he was privileged to supervise espionage investigations.

After his retirement, he earned a PhD in American history from the Catholic University of America

and currently works as a historian and educator specializing in the discipline of

counterintelligence as a function of state craft. He has written two books on the history of the FBI's

counterintelligence program. The origins of FBI counterintelligence examines the

turbulent early years of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Evolution

and includes examples of past Russian interference.

His latest book provides details about former director J Edgar Hoover and FBI

counterintelligence during World War II. In addition to writing and research, Ray Bet Venice operates FBI Studies.com, a website focused

on the study of the FBI and other counterintelligence issues.

Now for those of you who are a regular listener of FBI retired case file review, you know that

I started this podcast as a way of giving listeners an insight into the

FBI other than how the FBI is portrayed in books on TV and in movies.

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