John Prouty wrote a review of my book, Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence published in November 2024: SIGINT Secrecy BY JOHN PROUT Raymond J. Batvinis: Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2024, 324 p., $120.00 (hardcover) Col. (Ret) John […]
My book, “Agent Link” was reviewed by intelligence book historian Hayden Peake in the September 2024 issue of CIA’s Studies in Intelligence: Sometime in 1934, William Weisband, a clerk working for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York was recruited by the KGB and given the codename LINK. Fifteen years later another KGB agent he […]
I spoke about my new book, “Agent Link: The Spy Erased from History” at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC on October 17, 2024. John J. Quattrocki, retired FBI executive who also served on the National Security Council staff interviewed me for this presentation. Description: Retired FBI Counterintelligence Expert Raymond J. Batvinis reveals the […]
Ray Batvinis was recently on the Spycraft 101 podcast: Spycraft 101 host Justin talks with retired FBI Special Agent Raymond J. Batvinis. Ray served in the FBI from 1972 until 1997, working in counterterrorism and counterintelligence, including on the investigations into Ronald Pelton and the Walker spy ring. Shortly after 9/11, he returned to teach […]
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