Walt Gunter stood at a window of his two-story apartment watching the morning sun as it climbed out of the depths of the Potomac River. He studied the ripples made by the river currents, and marveled at the rising sun as it washed the river with its orange radiance.
His breath formed a tiny circle of moisture on the cold windowpane. He pondered at the spot as it quickly faded into nothingness and thought how his career had evaporated much like that puff of moisture. Why had everything turned out the way it had, he asked himself? If he could only go back and change some minor things he knew his life would have been a lot different.
It was almost a lifetime ago when he had graduated from Georgetown University. Memories of how hard he had worked to graduate at the top of his class drifted among his thoughts. After he graduated, he did what he had always wanted to do. He immediately applied to the FBI Special Agent training school at Quantico, Virginia. Walt smiled as he remembered those days. Things were simpler and simple things, the common little things, meant something. There was God and Country; the bad guys and the good guys. Everything was either black or white—no shades of gray. Remorsefully, he thought of how rapidly the passion of his youth had died. Some said that it was his ambition and cunningness that had pushed him up the bureaucratic ranks of the FBI so quickly. Most of his years with the Bureau had been spent working in foreign counterintelligence operations. Inspecting security procedures at defense contractor's sites had given him a wealth of knowledge into the surreptitious domain of industrial espionage.
The cat and mouse games he had played with adversarial spies always seemed surrealistic. It never was...
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...mplete set. This was an all time record. The most he had ever made was $150,000 on a Corning Glass fiber optic project for the French DGSE. He felt these must be a hell of a set of printouts.
Walt's contacts at Mathis Labs had not heard of anything relating to the formulas or the printouts. It would be easier if he had known the name of the project, but all he had were some photocopied sheets of printouts to match up with formulas that should look like the ones on his photocopied sheets. As far as his information sources knew, none of the Mathis projects matched any of the data on his photocopies. Some of his contacts thought it might be a super secret project under deep cover.
His intel network had produced nothing. Walt considered his options and concluded that, if he wanted to collect the two million, he would have to go to Mathis and search for the source
As I looked out the window of the restaurant, I could see the sun bouncing off the sparkling water below. Boats and other water craft scatter the water as well as people on water-skis and inner tubes. The picturesque view makes life seem so much better and just looking at the river makes a person calmer. The scene just described is the view from the window of a restaurant called Sophia in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the corresponding river is the mighty Mississippi. Although Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, this scene could be found right here in the valley of Phoenix. The way this is possible is through the Rio Salado Project.
Born on September 23, 1953, Earl Edwin Pitts was a all-American, clean-cut citizen of the United States. Earl Edwin Pitts is a native of Urbana, Missouri, he has a Bachelors in Science Degree from Central Missouri State University, a Master's Degree from Webster College, and a law degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He served in the Army from 1975 to 1980. As a law school graduate and retired Army Captain (1), Earl Edwin Pitts had dreamed of working for the Federal Bureau of Investigations for two reasons, first to protect the United States and second, as a means of escaping his small town Missouri roots. On September 18, 1983 Earl Edwin Pitts joined the Federal Bureau of Investigations as a Special Agent taking the solemn oath of office and promising to support and defend the Constitution of the United States as well as to protect the secret information accessed during his tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigations however, less than four years later, a disgruntled and angry Earl Edwin Pitts entered into a conspiracy with the Soviet Union to betray his country. Earl Edwin Pitts was a thirteen year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigations when he was caught selling information to the United States’ largest adversary; nine of those years were as a double agent. (2)
The warm wind blew my hair back, while I listened to the chatter and thumps from the steps on the wooden walkway. Car horns occasionally sounded as they passed by up the road. Colorful sail boats provided a picturesque background. Paris had his camera wrapped around his neck and was focused on the glowing sunset. We sat on a black swinging chair, facing the rippling water that held the sunset’s warm reflection. Paris scrolled through the pictures on his black professional camera.
Andrew Batten, the executive director of Frances Tavern in New York, explains that “Everything about being a spy went against the code of the gentleman,” speaking about espionage in the late 18th century. In this period, espionage was seen by most as a disgraceful profession. This is why although the Continental Army needed spies to help them win the Revolutionary War, so many people refused to do the job because they feared becoming someone who dedicated their lives to lies and deception. However, american history is full of brave, forward thinking men and women who dedicated their lives to taking risks in order to create a better life for themselves and for future generations. Among these courageous souls are the founders and members of the elusive Culper Spy Ring. This ring of spies and informants operated during the American
After this briefing, an experienced DIA counterintelligence analyst decided that he should tell a friend who was a counterintelligence investigator in the security office how and why he had come to wonder if Montes might be working with Cuban intelligence. He had observed several unusual actions and coincidences that might be best explained by her being a spy.
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the absolute configuration of an unknown chiral secondary alcohol using the competing enantioselective conversion (CEC) method. This method uses both R- and S- enantiomers of a chiral acyl-transfer catalyst called homobenzotetramisole (HBTM), in separate parallel reactions, and thin layer chromatography to identify the stereochemistry of the secondary alcohol, whether it be an R- or S- enantiomer. Quantitative analysis was performed using a program called ImageJ after the appropriate picture was taken of the stained TLC plate. The molecular structure of the unknown alcohol was identified using 1H NMR spectroscopy by matching the hydrogens to the corresponding peak.
...o-workers were white man. Then he realized that FBI miss great opportunities on hiring female and minorities. He joined FBI at age 24. He chose to put his work first, wife and three kids behind. Then he had three daughters, he realized that family became more important. Now when he recalls those days at FBI, he doesn't miss them. He is happy with his second career as a writer(Berman). He suggests to people who want to be an agent to read more book, expand vocabulary, focus to speak publicly (Berman).
...d caused the FBI to go into “wartime mode” FBI Headquarters and the now 54 field offices were now placed on 24 hour schedules and soon after started making arrests on people who threatened national security. From the actual outbreak of war the responsibilities of the Bureau had grown more to worrying about sabotage, subversion, and espionage then working on issues in the past. In the eyes of the FBI the world had changed drastically and with that the role of the FBI had evolved to adjust to the needs of society. As the war ended the fear of spies and communism continued as Russia still pushed on its communistic ways but the FBI did not abdicate its power in controlling these threats but moved along with helping create and move forward in a time of economic control for the US.
The FBI is an organization that takes pride in how they conduct their mission. John E. Ott, editor for the FBI says, “Our goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the threats and pe...
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Eileen Ahlin). The Bureau was in a fatal state with lax standards, corrupt agents, and agents who obtained the jobs through political connections rather than intelligence or skill. Most agents rarely carried guns or even made arrests; they played explicitly no role in enforcing the law. The FBI did not engage in most federal cases, which made it easier for criminals to get away with their crimes. Hoover had the drive to change the Bureau to a more efficient, modern organization. The 30s is the bulk of his work when he created a police labs and training facilities across the country, as well as developing a system for documenting finger prints. He laid out clear cut and precise standards, polices, and regulations to enforce – even if it meant bitterly criticizing his most trusted officers. Hoover hired new agents unlike the average cop and shady investigator the bureau had previously hired. Instead, the...
With hindsight comes insight. When looking back at experiences, connections, and meanings can reveal themselves to us. That then provides a greater depth of understanding for that experience, providing assurance of if we make good choices despite harsh judgment. In the essay “Working at Wendy’s”, the narrator Joey nurtures his understanding for what it means to work a low-end job and to understand that people can’t be judged fully on their current career position. I too have had similar experiences where over time and with past reflection, I have noticed and understood things differently than I did in the moment. I want to describe how and what Joey learned as he progressed in his work at Wendy’s, then describe my own similar experience, then
didn't happen. He got word, though, that there was a search of his home, and
J. Edgar Hoover began the establishment of the FBI alongside his partner Clyde Tolson and secretary, Helen Gandy. Hoover directed the FBI during eight presidential terms ranging from Coolidge, until his death during Nixon’s presidency. He began his career at the U.S Department of Justice in 1917, quickly rising from attorney General A. Mitchell Palmers’ assistant, to the head of the General Intelligence Division, and eventually reaching the position of director of the FBI (“J. Edgar Hoover”). Next, as the director of the Bureau of Investigation Hoover increasingly became fearful and anti-communist, focusing on the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King and many other political groups he saw as threatening to society. Though various methods of manipulation including blackmail, wiretaps, raids and unnecessary arrests, Hoover did everything in his power to disp...
system design and showed the design to his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman. Philo covered a couple of chalkboards
The sunset was not spectacular that day. The vivid ruby and tangerine streaks that so often caressed the blue brow of the sky were sleeping, hidden behind the heavy mists. There are some days when the sunlight seems to dance, to weave and frolic with tongues of fire between the blades of grass. Not on that day. That evening, the yellow light was sickly. It diffused softly through the gray curtains with a shrouded light that just failed to illuminate. High up in the treetops, the leaves swayed, but on the ground, the grass was silent, limp and unmoving. The sun set and the earth waited.