During my first major undercover operation, my dedicated colleagues and I spent two years penetrating an international drug smuggling operation, which ended on the night of October 15, 1992, when we seized forty-six kilograms of high-grade Pakistani heroin, valued at $180 million. I’d served as an FBI Special Agent for seven years and as a uniformed policeman for several years before that. I had what I considered to be the best job in the world, protecting Americans and our way of life from those who would do us harm. Professionally things couldn’t have gone better if I’d written the script myself. What stood out that morning as I lay in bed under the queen-sized comforter next to my beautiful wife, Samantha, was the fact that at this point in my young career as an FBI Agent and father, my life seemed damn near perfect. The life of an FBI Special Agent assigned to a Drug Squad was always busy with cases to investigate, paperwork to fill out, and trials to prepare for. My internal clock roused me before dawn in the bedroom of our modest three-bedroom home in Swedesboro, New Jersey, and my brain immediately started reminding me of the things I had to accomplish that day at work-evidence tapes to review, transcriptions of phone surveillance logs to check. Read moreĪpril 10, 1994, started no differently than dozens of days before it. Ghost is the ultimate insider's account of one of the most iconic institutions of American government, and a testament to the incredible work of the FBI. Along the way, we meet his partners and colleagues at the FBI, who pull together for everything from bank jobs to the Boston Marathon bombing case, mafia dons, and, perhaps most significantly, El Chapo himself and his Sinaloa Cartel. McGowan infiltrates groups at home and abroad, assembles teams to create the myths he lives, concocts fake businesses, coordinates the busts, and helps carry out the arrests. Ghost is an unparalleled view into how the FBI, through the courage of its undercover Special Agents, nails the bad guys.
In this extraordinary and unprecedented book, McGowan will take readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to biker gangs and contract killers, to corrupt unions and SWAT work. Over the course of his career, McGowan has worked more than 50 undercover cases. And of those, less than 10% of them have been involved in more than five undercover cases. A quarter of those agents have worked more than one undercover assignment in their careers. 10% of FBI Special Agents are trained and certified to work undercover. Within FBI field operative circles, groups of people known as “Special” by their titles alone, Michael R. MIKHAIL SEMENKOĪrrested at his home in Arlington, he is accused of using sophisticated communications equipment and making incriminating statements to an undercover agent posing as a Russian official.The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in history. She is the only one not charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. The New York Post and other media have reported Chapman was often spotted at popular night clubs.
ANNA CHAPMANĪlso known as Anya Kushchenko, the 28-year-old was arrested in Manhattan, where she ran a $2 million real estate business, her lawyer said in court last week. prosecutors have said Lazaro told them he was born in Siberia but his attorney has subsequently denied this.
Both traveled to South America to meet Russian government representatives, court documents said. Lazaro has said he is a Peruvian citizen, born in Uruguay. The government has appealed that decision and a bail hearing is set for Friday. Pelaez, a columnist for the New York Spanish-language daily El Diario, is the only suspect granted release pending trial. The married couple were arrested at their home in Yonkers, New York.
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