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June 9, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Benson House’s wartime role as LI espionage post remembered

From Newsday: June 7, 2014 7:14 PMBy TED PHILLIPS  Vicki Jean Johnson’s parents never told her they came to Wading River to help fight the Nazis. The retired middle-school teacher knew her father, Donworth Drew Johnson, had been on the trail of America’s most wanted during his dozen years in the FBI. But it was a […]

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June 6, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Long Island Home’s Secret Role in WWII Espionage Revealed

By Joe Valiquette |  Friday, Jun 6, 2014  |   NBC4 New York  | Link Since the end of World War II many stories have surfaced about the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to deceive the Germans and Japanese about Allied troop movements, invasion plans and atomic research. But only recently has the world […]

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June 2, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

EVENT: Ceremony at historic FBI radio transmitter site – June 7

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI is planning to unveil a plaque at the historic Benson house in Wading River, NY on Saturday, June 7, at 10:30 a.m. to finally widely publicize the building’s historic wartime roles, which included helping to deceive […]

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June 2, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Secret WWII FBI radio transmission location featured in Batvinis book

FBI agent Richard Millen, who set up the Benson House radio site in Wading River. The Benson House was an isolated FBI radio transmission location, where agents pretended to be Nazi spies during World War II. (Credit: Suffolk County Historical Society)

Wading River retreat house was FBI disinformation operation in World War II Originally published: Newsday, May 31, 2014 By ROBERT E. KESSLER  [email protected] Article as it appeared in print: Newsday-Spies-Next-Door-1JUN14 (.pdf) These days, Benson House, located on a scenic, waterfront bluff 150 feet above Long Island Sound in Wading River, is a retreat house and office on the grounds of […]

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May 30, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

EVENT: Lecture on “Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies” at Institute of World Politics – June 17

Hoover's Secret Wars Against Axis Spies

You are cordially invited to a book lecture for  Hoover’s Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage during World War II  with author Raymond J. Batvinis  Former Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Professor, The Institute of World Politics  Tuesday, June 17 4:30 PM The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Parking […]

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May 27, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

New book reviewed in Washington Times

My book was reviewed today in the Washington Times newspaper: BOOK REVIEW: ‘Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies’ By Joseph Goulden Washington Times May 27, 2014 HOOVER’S SECRET WAR AGAINST AXIS SPIES: FBI COUNTERESPIONAGE DURING WORLD WAR II By Raymond J. Batvinis University Press of Kansas, $34.95, 334 pages An oft-told story in the annals […]

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May 1, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Deke DeLoach

I wrote this article about the former Deputy Director of the FBI, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, that appeared in the April 2014 issue of the Grapevine,  published by the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI: Stories from the Historical Committee: Deke DeLoach (.pdf)  

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April 30, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

GreatCharlie.com reviews “Hoover’s Secret War”

The blogger at GreatCharlie.com has posted a comprehensive review of my new book: Book Review: Raymond Batvinis, Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage During World War II Outstanding spy novels tell exciting tales of spy rings, secret and double agents, surveillance, codes and ciphers, wiretaps, microdots, deception, disinformation, and even use of invisible […]

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April 23, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Report on WWII Conference in UK

From April 14-17, 2014 I had the unique opportunity of attending an international history conference in England entitled “1944: Seventy Years On.” Sponsors included Global War Studies: The Journal for the Study of Warfare and Weapons, 11919-1945 together with the National Intelligence University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, both located in Washington, DC. The […]

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April 15, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Case study on college student recruited to be a spy

The FBI has recently released two videos about the Glenn Shriver espionage case to alert other college students who are studying abroad to the possibility of being targeted for recruitment by a foreign intelligence service or entity. (FBI) Glenn Duffie Shriver seemed like an average college student—majoring in international relations at a college in Michigan […]

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March 28, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Just My Luck

Dwayne Logan Eskridge, FBI

By Ray Batvinis First published in the December 2012 issue of The Grapevine, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI At 7:55 on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, 22-year-old Dwayne Logan Eskridge was in the Honolulu FBI office, sitting alone at his radio transmitter in a gun vault—spinning dials, checking frequencies and tightening […]

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March 28, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Old Man Dynamite

By Ray Batvinis First published in May 2013 issue of The Grapevine, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI One of the strangest cases in FBI history occurred 73 years ago this month when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered Special Agent M. Clair Spear to chaperon Carl Norden as he sailed from New […]

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March 18, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Behavior is in the Eye of the Beholder

For the past few months I have been doing some background reading for a book project that I’m considering. I just finished Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel’s Bombshell: The Secret Story of America’s Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy, the remarkable 1995 biography of Theodore Hall, the teenage Harvard physicist wunderkind working at Los Alamos, who gave […]

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December 21, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Coming in April: Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies

Hoovers Secret War Against Axis Spies book cover

Coming in April 2014 from University Press of Kansas:   Hoover’s Secret War Against Axis Spies FBI Counterespionage During World War II By Raymond J. Batvinis April 2014 312 pages, 24 photographs, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1952-8, $34.95 The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret […]

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December 21, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Thomas McDade Diary

I was honored to be part of a recent event at the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC. The family of FBI Special Agent Thomas M. McDade was giving the museum copies of a diary McDade kept while in the Bureau during the years 1934 to 1938. One of the most memorable events of […]

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December 21, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Original Documents: Antheil, Faymonville, Beck

New original source documents have been added at the end of the article, The Strange Wartime Odyssey of Louis C. Beck: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (in .pdf): 20 June 1940: Telegram to Secretary of State concerning evidence about Henry Antheil’s activities 22 June 1940: Telegram on Antheil case 23 June 1940: Telegram on Antheil case; Translation of a Letter to Antheil […]

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October 21, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

CSPAN Video of Discussion of Robert Hanssen Case

On October 1, 2013, former FBI Special Agent Mike Rochford, author David Wise, and psychiatrist David Charney talked about the career of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia for 22 years. The speakers focused on the contradictory nature of Hanssen, a self-described “patriot” who committed espionage against […]

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October 7, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

When the FBI Spent Decades Hunting for a Soviet Spy on Its Staff

By David Wise in the October 2013 issue of the Smithsonian magazine One spring night in 1962 a short, stocky Russian walked into the FBI office in Midtown Manhattan and offered his services as a spy for the United States. Aleksei Kulak, then 39, was working undercover as a science official at the United Nations. […]

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September 26, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

FBI Tribute Video

From James Hoyer Investigative Law Firm: James Hoyer Lead Investigator Al Scudieri is President of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. This week, he presided over the organization’s national convention in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every year, the Society pays tribute to agents killed in the line of duty in the region where the […]

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July 9, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

VIDEO: Reagan and Counterintelligence Lecture

Here is the video of my talk on “Ronald Reagan: Counterintelligence and the Evil Empire” at the Institute of World Politics for their Third Annual Reagan Intelligence lecture in April 2013.  

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Historical FBI Studies by Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD, author of "The Origins of FBI Counterintelligence" and "Hoover's Secret War Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterintelligence During World War II."

 

A retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Ray is now a historian and educator specializing in the discipline of counterintelligence as a function of statecraft.

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