Welcome to episode 136 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction

inspired by true crime FBI cases. Today we get to speak to retired agent Michael McGowan who served in the FBI for more than 30 years.

Early in his career, while assigned to the Philadelphia Division, he worked major drug investigations.

In this episode, Mike McGowan reviews a Pakistani drug investigation

where he was falsely accused and investigated for the theft of $200 million, not a typo, of heroin and cocaine from a secured FBI evidence vault.

His reputation and integrity were temporarily destroyed by the false allegation. The actual person responsible

was another FBI drug agent who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crime. Later in his career, Mike was

transferred to the Boston Division and participated in more than 50 FBI undercover operations.

He successfully infiltrated Italian LCN and Russian organized crime groups,

Mexican drug cartels, outlaw motorcycle gangs, contract murderers, and corrupt

public officials, all resulting in significant arrest, seizures, and lengthy incarcerations.

Mike has been recognized at the highest levels of the FBI and Department of Justice

and domestically and internationally

for his role as an undercover agent.

He was an instructor at the FBI Undercover Certification School

in Quantico, and he also served as an

operational counselor for the FBI's undercover safeguard unit,

evaluating undercover FBI personnel for operational and psychological readiness.

Mike McGowan has been qualified in federal court as a subject matter expert in undercover operations.

After retiring from the FBI, Mike McGowan started the

7329 group, a law enforcement undercover training and entertainment consulting firm.

He is the author of Ghost, my 30 years as an FBI undercover agent,

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