ABSTRACT
To help explain what an intelligence program is in the context of private security and the value that it brings to private industry, I provide some of my background and experiences. I spent 25 years as a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the dates are important due to the major events that happened during my FBI service from 1986 to 2011. I was sent to the Seattle office after completion of the 17-week FBI New Agents Academy in Quantico, Virginia. I was assigned to the Violent Crimes Squad and worked a variety of violent crimes, bank robberies, extortions, kidnapping cases, bombings, and domestic terrorism investigations. At the time, the small-to-medium offices of the FBI contained only new agents and the most senior of agents who had enough seniority to obtain the “office-of-preference” transfer, which meant they were close to retirement. Agents then were required to retire at age 55; in 1990, they raised the mandatory retirement age to 57.
