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FBI Retired Case File Review

Episode 152: Bob Clifford – Mormon Missionary Murders, Terrorism in Latin American

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Robert “Bob” Clifford reviews an extra-territorial jurisdiction case from early in his career when he was assigned as a technical adviser embedded in Bolivia with a Bolivian police counter-terrorism team to capture the terrorist responsible for the murder of two Mormon missionaries and the attempted assignation of U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz.

Bob is the recipient of numerous awards and decorations, to include FBI Director’s Award for Counter-terrorism, the Director of National Intelligence Commendation Award, the Award of Excellence from the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Bolivian National Police Medal of Merit. In 2004, he received the Service to America Medal and was named Federal Employee of the Year.

Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles.https://jerriwilliams.com/episode-152-bob-clifford-mormon-missionary-murders-terrorism-in-latin-american/

Bob Clifford was previously interviewed about his investigation and capture of the only surviving hijacker responsible for the hijacking of Egypt Air Flight 648 (Episodes 96 and 97) and his special assignment to establish the FBI's MS-13 National Gang Task Force (Episode 103).



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 152 of FBI Retired Case File Review of Jerry Williams.

0:12.2

I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the

0:15.4

FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and the personal case

0:21.6

reviews of my former colleagues who served in the FBI.

0:25.0

Today we get to speak to retired agent Bob Clifford who served with the FBI for 24 years.

0:33.6

He rose from special agent to senior executive with responsibilities in international terrorism

0:40.2

and transnational Criminal Gang Matters.

0:43.0

In this episode, Bob Clifford reviews an extra territorial jurisdiction case

0:49.0

from early in his career

0:51.0

when he worked as a technical advisor embedded with the Bolivian police

0:55.6

counterterrorism team seeking to capture the terrorists responsible for murdering

1:01.3

two Mormon missionaries.

1:04.0

Bob is the recipient of numerous awards and decorations

1:08.0

to include the FBI Director's Award for Counterterrorism, the Director of National and the National Police Medal of Merit.

1:25.0

He received the Service to America Medal of Merit.

1:27.0

In 2004, he received the Service to America Medal

1:31.0

and was named Federal Employee of the Year.

1:35.0

Bob Clifford was previously interviewed on this podcast about his investigation and

1:40.2

capture of the only surviving hijacker responsible for the hijacking of Egypt Air Flight

1:47.0

648, that's episode 96 and 97, and about his special assignment to establish the FBI's MS-13 National Gang Task Force.

1:59.6

That's episode 103.

2:02.2

I want to give a special shout out to Bob trying to do a weekly podcast with 50

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