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May 13, 2019 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

A Vanished Dream: Tsuruja Miyazaki Case

This is a sad story but, in its own way, a truly American one. It focuses on what we refer to today as an “undocumented immigrant” victimized by a nation suddenly, and, unexpectedly, caught up in the grip of irrational fear. My role in the saga began last fall with an email message from a […]

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April 19, 2017 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Spying on the Royals

I was interviewed on a new British documentary called “Spying on the Royals” about a secret government plot to eavesdrop on Edward VIII. I’m shown above with editor Chris Roots during the filming of my segment. Here is the trailer for the show:   More information How MI5 spied on the KING: An explosive new documentary […]

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October 25, 2016 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

The FBI, Intelligence Community and 9/11

I spoke at the Marechal Ferdinand Foch Auditorium on the grounds of the Ecole Militaire in Paris for a conference before an audience of seven hundred on the evening of June 23, 2016. In connection with the upcoming fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I reviewed some of the historical and institutional factors which contributed to the Intelligence Community’s […]

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September 21, 2016 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

History of the Chicago FBI

A new video that tells the history of the Chicago FBI Field Office: CHICAGO FBI HISTORY from tim morris on Vimeo.

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June 6, 2016 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Lake Ronkonkoma’s Double Agent

A photo taken at Flannigan’s Restaurant in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York. The occasion was a joint presentation on June 4 at the Sachem Library in Sachem, New York on the role Lake Ronkonkoma, New York played in the Duquesne espionage investigation. I’m on the left next to Evelyn Volkgraff, the Director of Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society […]

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April 19, 2016 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Remembering FBI SA Jack Coler and SA Ron Williams

FBI SA Jack Coler and SA Ron Williams

I would like to share with you this video produced for the Society of Former Agents of the FBI by James Hoyer Law Firm and Media Productions. It’s a video in memory of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams, who were killed in the line of duty on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine […]

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July 14, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Secrets of the FBI, World War II and France

Cercle K2

My lecture at Cercle K2, a Paris based think-tank that seeks solutions to the social, political and economic problems facing the world today. I am proud to acknowledge that I am a founding member. The lecture was held at the beautiful Ferdinand Foch Auditorium on the grounds of Ecole Militaire in Paris, France on June 24, 2015 before an […]

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May 31, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Christopher Boyce: What it’s really like to be a spy

Christopher Boyce was a young TRW employee in California with a CIA security clearance who began spying for the Soviet KGB with his friend, Daulton Lee in 1975. He was caught and arrested in 1977 and sentenced to 40 years in prison. In April 1985, Boyce testified at hearings before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on […]

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April 27, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Civil Liberties and National Security: Did Hoover Get it Right?

On April 21, 2015, LTC Charmaine E. Betty-Singleton (USAR), a US Army War College Fellow at The Institute of World Politics and I gave a lecture on the topic of “Civil Liberties and National Security: Did Hoover Get it Right?” This presentation was the result of research conducted by LTC Betty-Singleton for her IWP-USAWC Fellowship. […]

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April 27, 2015 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Was Roger Hollis a British patriot or Soviet spy?

Roger Hollis Revisited On Friday, April 10, 2015, I had the pleasure of serving on a six member panel in front of a packed audience at the Institute of World Politics (IWP) in Washington, DC. The title of the program was British Patriot or Soviet Spy? Clarifying a Major Cold War Mystery. Our mission was to […]

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November 10, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

VIDEO: The Burglary that Exposed the FBI’s Secret Surveillance Program

More than four decades ago, under the cover of night, a group of eight individuals infiltrated an FBI office outside of Philadelphia and walked out with more than 1,000 documents, revealing closely guarded secrets—many about the FBI’s extensive surveillance programs. News of the burglary made the front page of The Washington Post, and although the […]

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November 3, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Book Discussion on Double Agent

(CSPAN) Peter Duffy talked about his book, Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring, in which he recounts the life of William Sebold, the first double agent in FBI history, who infiltrated a ring of Nazi spies in New York City. In his book, […]

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September 25, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Talk at the State Department

On September 11, 2014, I had the honoring of speaking about my book, “Hoover’s Secret Wars Against Axis Spies: FBI Counterintelligence During World War II,”at the Ralph J. Bunch Library at the US State Department in Washington, DC. I talk about why I wrote the book, what is in it, the unique sources I tapped into and, because of […]

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August 29, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

EVENT: British Patriot or Soviet Spy? Oct 17

I will be part of a panel examining the Richard Hollis case: British Patriot or Soviet Spy? Clarifying a Cold War Mystery A demonstration of new analytic techniques to examine the controversial case of whether Britain’s former MI5 Director General, Roger Hollis, was or was not a Soviet agent. Friday, October 17, 2014 4:00-6:30 PM The […]

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June 18, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

VIDEO: Batvinis lecture on new book about FBI Counterespionage during WWII

The Institute of World Politics videotaped the lecture I recently gave about my new book, Hoover’s Secret War against Axis Spies: FBI Counterespionage During World War II.

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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

Christopher Boyce 1985 Congressional Testimony

Christopher Boyce’s 1985 testimony to Congress about security at government contractors and effectiveness of security awareness programs. This three-part video is from 1998 episodes of CI-TV with host David Major, retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Christopher Boyce had been an employee of a government contractor with a top secret security clearance and worked in a […]

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March 28, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Book Discussion on Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr talked about the book they wrote with Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press; May 26, 2009). Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB officer, was given unprecedented access to Stalin-era KBG records that allowed him and his co-authors to present an unprecedented […]

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March 12, 2014 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

Moles, Defectors, and Deceptions: James Angleton and His Influence on US Counterintelligence

From a joint conference of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies. Extracts from a November 1976 interview with James Angleton who retired in 1975 as the head of counterintelligence at the CIA.

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November 7, 2013 By Raymond J. Batvinis, PhD

FBI Firearms Training in the 1930s

Video footage of FBI Special Agents training with various firearms in the 1930s. Video has no sound; video is in color towards the end. If you know of someone in the video or know of more information about the training location or type of weapons, please contact me.

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