141: Bill Kinane – FBI in Moscow, First Russian LEGAT
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Bill Kinane reviews the five years he served as the Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) and the Legal Attaché (LEGAT) of the FBI's Office in Moscow, Russia, the first-ever official Bureau presence in the country. The office was opened at the invitation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Bill Kinane established a working relationship with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). At the time, current Russian President Vladimir Putin was the head of the FSB, and Bill Kinane met with him and his team weekly.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 141 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by |
| 0:15.0 | true crime FBI cases. Today we get to speak to retired agent Bill Conane |
| 0:21.1 | who served with the FBI for 34 years. |
| 0:25.0 | He spent most of his career in San Francisco, |
| 0:28.0 | but also served in the Seattle, New York, and Chicago divisions, |
| 0:32.0 | and the Moscow Office of the FBI. |
| 0:36.0 | In this episode Bill Conane reviews the five years he served as the assistant legal attache |
| 0:42.3 | A Latt and the legal attache, A Latt, and the legal attache, Ligat of the FBI's office in Moscow, Russia, |
| 0:50.0 | the first ever official bureau presence in the country. |
| 0:54.2 | The office was opened at the invitation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. |
| 0:59.4 | Bill Conane established a working relationship with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the security |
| 1:05.2 | service of the Russian Federation, F.S.B. |
| 1:09.2 | At the time, current Russian President Vladimir Putin was the head of the FSB, and Bill |
| 1:15.8 | Canane met with him and his team on a weekly basis. The Moscow League at |
| 1:21.1 | office handled major investigations with a Russian nexus. |
| 1:25.4 | Russian organized crime, money laundering, kidnapping of Americans in Russia, |
| 1:30.4 | extortion, terrorism, movement of nuclear materials, and human trafficking. |
| 1:35.0 | Bill Kanane, who has an advanced degree in Russian area studies and learned Russian |
| 1:40.5 | and Serbo-Coration from the Defense Language Institute at Monterey |
| 1:44.7 | California while serving in the Marine Corps also provides a brief history of the |
| 1:50.0 | period. Upon his retirement Bill Canane worked as a contract employee in Ukraine, Belarus, and Albania. |
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