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🗓️ 16 February 2021
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Jay Dobyns was a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In 2002, he infiltrated the Hells Angels biker gang and spent two years undercover—a period in which he says he worried every single day about getting exposed and killed by the group.
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0:00.0 | This is I spy show from foreign policy where spies tell their story. |
0:07.0 | And so we went and found this Mongol in Mexico. |
0:20.0 | Beat him with a baseball bat, duct tape to his ankles and his feet together, |
0:26.0 | stuffed him in a shallow grave in the desert and shot him in the head with the gun we were given. |
0:34.0 | And we took pictures of that, we cut the bloody Mongol vest off the victim, |
0:40.0 | came back and delivered it as evidence to the Hell's Angels of the murder that we had committed on behalf of the gang. |
0:49.0 | And they believed it and they bought it and they embraced it. |
0:58.0 | From foreign policy, welcome back to I spy. |
1:01.0 | On each episode we get one former intelligence operative to tell the story of one operation. |
1:07.0 | I'm Margot Martindale. |
1:10.0 | J. Dobbins was a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. |
1:17.0 | In 2002, he went undercover to infiltrate the Hell's Angels Biker Gang as part of an operation called Black Biscuit. |
1:25.0 | Members of the gang were suspected of a series of crimes, including running drugs, trafficking and stolen goods, |
1:33.0 | and killing rival gang members. |
1:36.0 | Dobbins spent more than two years undercover, a period in which he says he constantly worried about getting exposed, |
1:44.0 | and killed by the gang. |
1:47.0 | Here's his story. |
1:56.0 | When the Hell's Angels investigation started and the opportunity was presented to me to lead the undercover portion of that investigation, |
2:07.0 | at that point I already had 15 years of undercover experience under my belt. |
2:14.0 | I had been on the street and bought everything from Saturday night special P shooters to shoulder-launched rockets. |
2:24.0 | I infiltrated street gangs. |
2:27.0 | I had worked home invasion investigations. |
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