Episode 190: John Pistole - Deputy Director, Mob Guys and Teamsters Union

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent John Pistole served in the FBI for twenty-six years, climbing through the ranks to become Deputy Director (the second highest position in the Bureau). He reviews the time, early in his career, that he worked in the New York FBI Office on an Organized Crime Task Force investigating illegal mob ties to the Teamsters Union.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode
0:04.8	episode 190 of FBI retired case file review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.3	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the FBI is and what the FBI does.
0:20.9	Through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:27.0	Well today we get to speak to retired agent and former FBI Deputy Director John Pistol.
0:37.0	John served in the FBI for 26 years, climbing through the ranks to attain the second highest position in the Bureau.
0:47.0	In this episode, John reviews the time early in his career that he worked in the New York FBI office on an
0:55.1	organized crime task force investigating illegal mob ties to the Teamsters
1:00.7	Union. During his career John Pistole was assigned to the Teamsters Union. During his career, John Pistol was assigned to the Minneapolis, New York,
1:07.1	Indianapolis, and Boston divisions and FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
1:13.4	After the attacks of September 11, 2001,
1:17.3	he was placed in charge of the FBI's counter-terrorism program,
1:22.3	eventually becoming the FBI's Executive Assistant Director for
1:27.0	National Security.
1:28.8	During his last six years with the Bureau, John worked closely with FBI Director Robert Mueller as his
1:37.1	deputy director to help transform the FBI into a proactive national security agency with law enforcement and
1:46.1	intelligence community authorities and responsibilities.
1:50.0	While he was serving as FBI Deputy Director, President Obama nominated John as the Administrator
1:57.7	of the Transportation Security Administration TSA.
2:02.3	John served as administrator for four and a half years.
2:06.0	Currently, he is president of his alma mater, Anderson University in Indiana.
2:13.2	Before we get to the interview, I have to say,
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