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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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February 27, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Ronald Reagan: Counterintelligence and the Evil Empire

Ronald Reagan Intelligence Lecture, Institute of World Politics

I am honored to be presenting the Third Annual Reagan Intelligence Lecture at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC on Friday, April 19, 2013 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. My topic wll be, “Ronald Reagan: Counterintelligence and the Evil Empire.” Please join me at this special event held at IWP, which is located at 1521 […]

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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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