269: Michael Gibeley – Thwarted Anti-Government Murder Plot

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Retired agent Mike Gibeley reviews his undercover role as a firearms dealer working with Edward McLarnon who was plotting to illegally purchase weapons to carry out a plot to murder government officials in New Hampshire and his ex-wife's husband. Mike served in the FBI for nearly 24 years and was an FBI certified undercover agent for over 20 years, working undercover operations across the United States and in countries around the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 269 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.2	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does
0:20.0	through my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.4	Today, we get to speak to retired agent Michael Ghibli, who served in the FBI for nearly 24 years.
0:34.7	In this episode, Mike Ghibli reviews his undercover role as a firearms dealer working with Edward
0:42.8	McLarnan, who was plotting to illegally purchase weapons to carry out a plot to murder government
0:49.4	officials in New Hampshire and his ex-wife's husband.
0:53.6	Boston Division Special Agent Brian LeBlanc was the case agent of this anti-government domestic
1:00.5	terrorism investigation. Mike Ghibli was an FBI certified undercover agent for more than 20 years
1:08.2	and worked many undercover operations across the United States and in countries around the world.
1:14.4	The undercover assignments he worked were for a variety of violations including domestic terrorism,
1:20.8	international terrorism, organized crime, drugs, white collar crime, crimes against children,
1:26.7	national security matters, public corruption and others. Mike was initially assigned to the Philadelphia
1:32.8	Division and later transferred to the Boston Division and the Port Smith New Hampshire resident
1:38.4	agency. During his bureau career, Mike was awarded the FBI Boston Division's Paul Kavanaugh Special
1:46.4	Agent of the Year Award in 2015, several Department of Justice awards and the organized crime
1:52.8	drug enforcement task force, OSADF Case of the Year Award. Towards the end of his career,
1:59.2	Mike became the supervisory senior resident agent for the New Hampshire offices of the FBI.
2:05.6	His last assignment before retiring was acting assistant special agent in charge of Boston's
2:12.2	counterterrorism branch, despite being a member of management, might continue to work undercover
2:17.9	until the very end of his career. Now, before we get to the episode, I do want to let you know,
2:24.8	after six and a half years of saying that I'll never have ads on the show, this will probably be
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