Episode 225: Jack Garcia – Undercover Agent, Making Jack Falcone

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Joaquin "Jack" Garcia reviews several of his early undercover roles and his final role infiltrating the New York mob as "Jack Falcone." During this UCA role, Jack played a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida. In New York, after gaining the trust of mobster Greg DePalma, Jack was able to penetrate the Gambino crime family for nearly three years. The case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 35 mobsters, including the top members of the Gambino crime family. Jack played his undercover role so convincingly that he was proposed for membership into La Cosa Nostra. Jack served in the FBI for 26 years. During his career, he was assigned to the Newark, San Juan, Philadelphia, and New York Divisions. However, for 24 out of his 26 years of service he traveled all around the country successfully working undercover in over 100 FBI operations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 225 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.0	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:20.2	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.3	Today, we get to speak to retired agent Joaquin Jack Garcia, who served in the FBI for 26 years.
0:35.0	During his career, he was assigned to the Newark, San Juan, Philadelphia and New York divisions.
0:41.6	However, for 24 of his 26 years of service, he traveled all around the country successfully
0:48.4	working undercover in over 100 FBI operations.
0:53.7	In this episode, Jack Garcia reviews several of his early undercover roles and, of course,
1:01.2	his final role infiltrating the New York mob as Jack Falcone.
1:06.9	During this undercover role, Jack played a self-describe Sicilian Jewel thief and drug
1:13.4	dealer from Miami.
1:15.3	While working undercover in New York, he gained the trust of mobster Greg Di Palma and was
1:21.8	able to penetrate the Gambino crime family for nearly three years.
1:28.0	That case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 35 mobsters.
1:33.7	Jack played his undercover role so convincingly that he was proposed from membership into
1:39.2	the mob.
1:40.7	Jack is a guest speaker and lecturer at the FBI Academy and the FBI National Academy and
1:46.9	the FBI Citizens Academy on undercover agent training and sensitive operations.
1:53.2	He has appeared on 60 minutes, the investigative discovery channel, CBS Evening News, CBS
2:00.2	Early Show and Good Day New York on Fox.
2:04.3	Jack also serves as the volunteer director of investigations for Guardians of Rescue,
2:11.6	an animal rights and welfare organization whose members work to protect the well-being
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