233: Kathy Stearman – FBI in India and China, Women in the FBI, It’s Not About the Gun

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Retired agent Kathy Stearman reviews her time overseas as Legal Attaché, in charge of FBI offices in south-central Asia and China and discusses her memoir, It’s Not About the Gun: Lessons from My Global Career as a Female FBI Agent where she examines the influence of attitude and gender in her journey to becoming FBI Legal Attaché, the most senior FBI representative in a foreign office. Kathy Stearman served in the FBI for over 26 years. During her career, she was the FBI Legal Attaché (Legat) in India, based out of New Delhi, from 2006 through 2008, where she was responsible for oversight of all FBI interests and concerns in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. She was Legat China in Beijing from 2008 through 2011, with oversight of all FBI interests and concerns in the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 233 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the
0:16.2	FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:26.7	Kathy Sterman who served in the FBI for 26 years and this episode she reviews her time overseas as a legal
0:37.6	attache in charge of FBI offices in South Central Asia and China and discusses her memoir.
0:47.0	It's not about the gun lessons from my global career as a female FBI agent, where she examines the influence of attitude and
0:58.8	gender in her journey to becoming an FBI league at, the most senior FBI representative in a foreign
1:06.3	country. Kathy was the league in India based out of New Delhi from 2006 through 2008,
1:14.8	where she was responsible for oversight
1:17.4	of all FBI interests and concerns in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
1:27.0	She was LeGad in Beijing from 2008 to 2011 with oversight of all FBI interests and concerns in the People's Republic of China and Mongolia.
1:40.0	Her first FBI assignments after graduating from the academy were to the Alexandria Virginia Field Office and the Washington Field Office where she worked a variety of criminal investigations to include government fraud, health care fraud, public corruption, and environmental crime.
2:00.5	She was selected to attend the Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, California, where she studied Mandarin Chinese.
2:10.0	Later, she had immersion and refresher courses in the language.
2:15.0	Following language training, Kathy was assigned to the New York Field Office
2:20.0	where she was
2:24.0	was transferred to the San Francisco office where she worked on the
2:28.2	international terrorism squad and a national security squad.
2:33.0	For her next assignment, she was promoted to program manager for a major counterintelligence initiative at FBI headquarters.
2:42.0	Her previously mentioned LeGat assignments followed her time at FBI headquarters.
2:48.0	Kathy's last assignment prior to retirement was as supervisory special agent of a national security squad in the
2:56.3	FBI's San Francisco division.
2:59.3	You can learn more about Kathy Sterman and where to purchase. It's not about the site Kathy Sterman.com.
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