In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain
The collapse of the Soviet Union was a historic turning point when many, especially those who grew up during the Cold War, began to let go of their long-held fears and embrace feelings of hope for the future. That included agents of the FBI, who were, by necessity, busy building bridges with their former adversaries in response to a flood of Russian criminals pouring into the United States. In The Belly of the Bear chronicles this collaboration through the eyes of a key FBI agent who was on the frontlines in Russia. Jeff Iverson explores obstacles he and his colleagues faced on our former rivals’ home turf, including counterintelligence challenges that have traditionally posed a danger to American government officials and/or businesspeople traveling to Russia. Part cultural history, part international relations thriller, Iverson’s account details successful criminal and terrorism investigations between the FBI and former Soviet authorities, and the nature of the FBI’s fraught relationship with one of those agencies — the FSB, Russia’s modern-day version of the Soviet KGB. Iverson closes with a focus on the worrying parallels between Russia’s return to autocracy and our current American political discourse. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of US and Russian relations as well and the history of the FBI.

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In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain
The collapse of the Soviet Union was a historic turning point when many, especially those who grew up during the Cold War, began to let go of their long-held fears and embrace feelings of hope for the future. That included agents of the FBI, who were, by necessity, busy building bridges with their former adversaries in response to a flood of Russian criminals pouring into the United States. In The Belly of the Bear chronicles this collaboration through the eyes of a key FBI agent who was on the frontlines in Russia. Jeff Iverson explores obstacles he and his colleagues faced on our former rivals’ home turf, including counterintelligence challenges that have traditionally posed a danger to American government officials and/or businesspeople traveling to Russia. Part cultural history, part international relations thriller, Iverson’s account details successful criminal and terrorism investigations between the FBI and former Soviet authorities, and the nature of the FBI’s fraught relationship with one of those agencies — the FSB, Russia’s modern-day version of the Soviet KGB. Iverson closes with a focus on the worrying parallels between Russia’s return to autocracy and our current American political discourse. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of US and Russian relations as well and the history of the FBI.

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In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain

In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain

by Jeffrey Iverson
In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain
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In the Belly of the Bear: An FBI Journey Behind the New Iron Curtain

by Jeffrey Iverson

Overview

The collapse of the Soviet Union was a historic turning point when many, especially those who grew up during the Cold War, began to let go of their long-held fears and embrace feelings of hope for the future. That included agents of the FBI, who were, by necessity, busy building bridges with their former adversaries in response to a flood of Russian criminals pouring into the United States. In The Belly of the Bear chronicles this collaboration through the eyes of a key FBI agent who was on the frontlines in Russia. Jeff Iverson explores obstacles he and his colleagues faced on our former rivals’ home turf, including counterintelligence challenges that have traditionally posed a danger to American government officials and/or businesspeople traveling to Russia. Part cultural history, part international relations thriller, Iverson’s account details successful criminal and terrorism investigations between the FBI and former Soviet authorities, and the nature of the FBI’s fraught relationship with one of those agencies — the FSB, Russia’s modern-day version of the Soviet KGB. Iverson closes with a focus on the worrying parallels between Russia’s return to autocracy and our current American political discourse. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of US and Russian relations as well and the history of the FBI.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781538189139
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 04/02/2024
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Iverson spent twenty-two years as a Special Agent of the FBI. The last half of his career was devoted exclusively to events in the former Soviet Union as a street agent working Russian organized crime, supervisor of the Russian organized crime squad in San Francisco, and as Legal Attaché in charge of FBI offices at US embassies in Central Asia and Moscow. Throughout those years, he was also an instructor at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, where he taught former Soviet bloc police managers on strategies to dismantle organized criminal enterprises.

Table of Contents

Contents

Chapter 1: Stepping Out of Our Shelters

Chapter 2: Into the Belly of the Bear

Chapter 3: A Mile in Another Man’s Shoes

Chapter 4: When Truth Is a Menace

Chapter 5: Without Hard Work, One Can’t Even Get a Fish Out of a Pond

Chapter 6: One Door Closes, Another One Opens

Chapter 7: Strange Bedfellows

Chapter 8: The Quieter You Go, the Farther You Get

Chapter 9: The Only Free Cheese Is in the Mousetrap

Chapter 10: The Fall and Rise of Chekism

Chapter 11: Back to the USSR

Chapter 12: Those Who Vote Decide Nothing, Those Who Count the Vote Decide Everything

Chapter 13: Control the Courts, Have the Last Word

Chapter 14: Afterthoughts and Aftershocks

Chapter 15: Their Country, Their Rules: You Get to Go Home

Chapter 16: Oh Say, Can You (Still) See

Notes

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