156: Part 2: Dana Ridenour - From small town KY girl to long-term deep cover FBI agent

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Murph interviews Dana Ridenour, a retired FBI agent, about her experiences working long-term undercover. Dana discusses the challenges, risks, and psychological toll of undercover work, what it means to “build relationships to betray relationships,” and the risks and sacrifices involved. Considering the toll that undercover work can take on mental health, Ridenour emphasizes the importance of support systems and self-care for law enforcement officers. She also talks about her transition to writing and the inspiration behind her books.

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0:00.0	You're going to be. No, no. No. No. I mean.
0:23.0	What?
0:25.0	What? So you're hanging out there in the Virgin Islands where everybody thinks is just
0:40.4	around the beach smoke you know drinking drinking, smoking, gauging, drinking my ties all day long.
0:46.8	That's the wrong thing to say on this show.
0:49.8	That's pretty close to reality.
0:53.0	Now somewhere along the line, you got the bug to be an undercover, a certified trained FBI undercover
1:00.0	correct?
1:02.0	That is correct.
1:03.0	What the heck is wrong with you, woman?
1:05.0	Well, it's kind of funny.
1:08.0	It steps back to when I was assigned to Mobile,
1:11.0	and DEA didn't have any women and FBI only had a couple at the time so
1:16.3	DEA calls over to the FBI and says hey do you guys got any women and they said we need
1:22.2	a female undercover of Of course they called my supervisor who had
1:26.1	the undercover program and he says, well, we only got won. Let me go see. So he comes to the
1:31.8	domain and he says, hey, you want to do an undercover for a DEA?
1:35.3	I said, sure, yeah.
1:37.8	I mean, I didn't even ask what it was.
1:39.7	That's how I go over there and they had a doctor
1:41.9	who was trading prescription for sex, which why of course a male couldn't do it.
1:46.4	So I did this undercover and it was I had an SAC approval because I hadn't been through the undercover school yet.
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