081: Marc Ruskin – False Flag Espionage, Classified Materials Theft
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Marc Ruskin reviews his false flag espionage undercover role posing as a French operative seeking to purchase uranium enrichment equipment that had been stolen from a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His undercover work in this case resulted in a former employee at the Oak Ridge Complex being sentenced to six years in prison. He is the author of The Pretender - My Life Undercover for the FBI, a true crime narrative about his undercover roles and the FBI's undercover operations—the procedures, the successes, and the failure.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 81 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime FBI cases. Today we get to |
| 0:16.6 | speak to retired agent Mark Ruskin who served 27 years with the FBI. |
| 0:23.7 | During his Bureau career, he spent more than 20 of those years |
| 0:27.7 | as an undercover agent. |
| 0:29.5 | Mark successfully infiltrated a New York mafia crime family, a Chinese-Mellasian heroin |
| 0:36.9 | organization, a Wall Street trading exchange, right-wing terrorist groups, and worked on espionage cases. |
| 0:45.8 | In this episode, Mark Raskin reviews his false flag espionage undercover role, posing as a French operative seeking to purchase |
| 0:55.9 | Uranium enrichment equipment that had been stolen from the United States |
| 1:00.9 | Department of Energy Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. |
| 1:05.0 | His undercover work in this case resulted in a former employee at the Oak Ridge Complex being sentenced to six years in prison. |
| 1:16.0 | Mark Ruskin was awarded five commendations from the Director of the FBI for his work. |
| 1:23.0 | A native French and Spanish speaker, |
| 1:26.0 | he has worked at several U.S. embassies, |
| 1:29.0 | including Paris, Madrid, and Buenos Aires. |
| 1:32.0 | As a certified police and student, Paris, Madrid, and Buenos Aires. |
| 1:33.5 | As a certified police instructor, Mark has lectured at universities and law enforcement academies. |
| 1:41.1 | Since his retirement from the FBI in 2012, he has divided his time between a law practice in New York and extended stays in Yowning Province, China, where he writes and studies Mandarin. Mark Ruskin recently |
| 1:56.0 | published The Pretender, My Life Under Cover for the FBI, a true crime |
| 2:02.0 | narrative about his undercover roles and the FBI's undercover operations, |
| 2:08.0 | the procedures, the successes, and the failures. |
| 2:12.0 | It looks like I have another great case for you today. |
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