674: Ken Croke | Undercover in an Outlaw Biker Gang Part Two
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ken Croke is a retired ATF agent who worked undercover for years to bust numerous criminal organizations, and is the co-author of Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang. [This is part two of a two-part episode. Make sure you've had a listen to part one here!]
What We Discuss with Ken Croke:- How did Ken (and his wife, who was also a federal agent) keep their undercover lives separate from their home lives without jeopardizing either?
- Working undercover over the course of two years, what were some of Ken's closest calls that almost compromised his cover -- and possibly his life?
- How is evidence gathered in a way that will hold up in court without blowing an undercover agent's cover?
- What signals that it's time for an undercover operation to end?
- Does Ken worry about what his former gang associates might do if their paths should ever cross again?
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.7 | You don't go into it knowing us two years. |
| 0:05.0 | It could be two minutes. |
| 0:06.0 | Listen, I didn't sign up for two years on the cover deal. |
| 0:08.2 | That's just what it turned into. |
| 0:09.8 | And most of the, or a lot of these, is they're progressing along, get stopped for different |
| 0:14.9 | reasons. |
| 0:15.9 | One, something's going to happen where you have to come out of roll and stop it. |
| 0:18.7 | Number two, your cover does get blown and it happens regularly. |
| 0:21.9 | Like there's so many things that can happen that would stop it. |
| 0:25.3 | The fact that very few of these run for two years, you're always kind of just seeing |
| 0:29.6 | how it's going to play out. |
| 0:31.4 | And that's where some of this dumb luck comes into it. |
| 0:34.8 | And people always think I'm making light of it, but it is a fact. |
| 0:41.4 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:43.4 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:47.0 | most fascinating people. |
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