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Justin Black

SPYCRAFT 101

Today's guest is Paula May. Paula graduated from Appalachian State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, and later a Master's degree in Public Administration. She worked for more than 35 years in law enforcement, primarily in Waga County and then in King, North Carolina. She spent more than 20 of those years in major crime investigations, and the last 10 as Chief of Police directing major criminal incident response and investigations in King. Since retiring, she has also served on the board of directors and as the interim director of the North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police. Paula is here this week to discuss a major case she investigated beginning in 1993 with the murder of Viktor Gunnarsson in North Carolina.

Years before his death, Viktor was a suspect in the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palma, which we previously discussed on episode 155 of the podcast. Now Paula can tell us how that investigation changed Viktor's life and what happened to him here in the United States at the hands of a local police officer. She also wrote two books about the case.

Connect with Paula:

amazon.com/stores/Paula-May/author/B08687TSC1

Check out the book, FIRST DEGREE RAGE, here.

https://a.co/d/0aOaxDHS

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

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234. The Swedish "Assassin" and the Killer Cop with Paula May

Today Justin talks with Michael Hershman. Michael served as a special agent with US Army Intelligence beginning in the late 1960s. He then went to work as an investigator for New York City, New York State, and then as a senior staff investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee led by US Senator Sam Ervin. Later, he joined the Federal Election Commission as chief investigator and was responsible for audits and investigations of candidates and their campaign committees.

After leaving government service, Michael founded the Fairfax Group. For the past 40 years, Fairfax Group has helped tackle complex and sensitive challenges related to crisis and risk management, compliance and security all over the world. He's here today to discuss his military service, his work as a US government investigator, and the world of high stakes, private investigations, consulting and risk management.

Connect with Michael and Fairfax Group:

fairfaxgroup.us

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

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233. From Cracking Watergate to Revolutionizing Private Intelligence with Michael Hershman

Today Justin sits down with Lisa Story. Lisa graduated from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, where she studied Communications and Journalism. Since then, she has worked in and around Nevada as a public relations professional. She's the author of two books, both of which focus on her uncle Walter Reca. Walt was an airborne soldier, professional, skydiver, occasional criminal, and conman possible CIA operative, and one of the primary candidates suspected to be D.B. Cooper, the infamous American skyjacker. She's discuss her latest book covering Walt's life, his exploits, and the evidence against him.

Connect with Lisa:

Facebook: D.B. Cooper Story

Check out the book, BETTER DEAD THAN POOR, here.

https://a.co/d/dW4M0cL

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

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232. My Uncle D.B. Cooper with Lisa Story

Today Justin talks with Tim Scherrer. Tim earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History from Truman State University and is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the Army ROTC program. He served as a military intelligence officer in the Army Reserve for 28 years. His assignments included an intelligence briefer to the commander in chief of US Transcom during Operation Desert Storm, basic training company commander and chief of the asymmetric threat division at US Transcom. After the 9/11 attacks, he later taught at the Army Reserve Command and General Staff College until he retired in 2015. Tim is now the Dean of Academics at Friar Tolton Catholic High School in Columbia, Missouri. He's also the author of seven books. He's here today to discuss how different disciplines of military intelligence work together to provide a complete picture of the battlefield and allowed US commanders to win the fight and then preserve the peace afterwards.

Connect with Tim:

lulu.com/spotlight/timscherrer

Check out the book, Spy Catchers, here.

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

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231. Decoding Battlefield Intelligence with Tim Scherrer

Today Justin sits down with Matthew John Heath. Matthew served in the US Marine Corps from 1999 until 2003, including a combat deployment to Iraq. Afterwards, he worked with the US State Department as a private contractor in Afghanistan. In 2020, Matthew was arrested inside Venezuela, near the Colombian border, and charged with multiple false offenses, including treason and arms trafficking. He spent more than two years captive in prison in Caracas before he was released in a prisoner exchange in October, 2022 along with several other American citizens. He's here today to discuss his service in the Marine Corps, his time working in Afghanistan and elsewhere, his arrest and imprisonment in Venezuela, and readjusting to life back home after the ordeal.

Connect with Matthew:

matthewjohnheath.com

hostageus.org

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

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230. Tortured and Held Hostage in Venezuela with Matthew John Heath

Today Justin sits down with Dr. Brian J. Ellison. Brian has a Master's degree in International Security from American University and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He's worked as a senior research scientist at the Center for Naval Analysis and at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he has specialized in Chinese strategic affairs, naval warfare and intelligence. His work has led to significant policy, operational, and institutional changes within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the overall intelligence community. In 2014, Brian was awarded the commendation for Meritorious Civilian Service by Commander Mar Fork Pack for his research and analysis of the Marine Corps's organizational challenges in the Indo-Pacific. He's here today to discuss human intelligence operations by the US Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations, which he details in his new book.

Connect with Brian:

brian.j.ellison@gmail.com

Check out the book, Quiet Wars: U.S. Naval Human Intelligence Operations during Crises with China, 1931–1965, here.

https://a.co/d/7CS3Gs9

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

 
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229. In the Shadows: US Naval Intelligence in the Indo-Pacific with Dr. Brian J. Ellison

This week Justin talks with Mike Yeagley. Mike is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for cohort.ID. For the past decade, Mike has been working in a variety of positions to understand and reveal how advertising and marketing data can be both an asset and a detriment in intelligence and targeting operations. He's here today to discuss his work regarding the many ways that data can be bought, sold, and used worldwide, and how anyone can effectively understand change and reduce their own data profiles.

Connect with Mike and cohort.ID:

LinkedIn: cohort.ID

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

 
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228. Data, Privacy, and Power: How Commercial Information Became the Next Frontier of Global Intelligence with Mike Yeagley

This week Justin sits down with Ana Margarita Martinez. Ana fled to the states at age six as a Cuban political refugee, and settled in South Florida as part of the Cuban Exile community. In 1992, she met Juan Pablo Roque, a Cuban Air Force pilot, who had recently arrived in Miami after defecting. They dated for three years and then married in 1995. A year later, Juan Pablo suddenly disappeared and Ana discovered that he had really been a spy for the Cuban government all along. She's here today to discuss her life, her marriage, and the shocking betrayal that turned her world upside down.

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

 
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227. My Husband the Cuban Spy with Ana Margarita Martinez

Today Justin talks to retired FBI Special Agent Sheldon Fung. Sheldon has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry from the University of California Davis, and a Master's Degree in Criminology and Weapons of Mass Destruction from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. spent more than 21 years with the FBI as a bomb technician and a WMD coordinator. He's here to discuss one of the biggest WMD cases he ever worked on, which began in Irvine, California in March, 2000, after a local man named Dr. Larry Ford attempted to have his business partner killed in a professional hit. Sheldon and his team became involved when the investigation took a shocking turn when biological agents and a buried arms cache were discovered in his home, along with evidence that connected Ford to the South African government and even the Central Intelligence Agency. Justin covered this case himself already for episode 93 of the podcast back in May 2023, which you might remember if you're a longtime listener, but today we'll hear from one of the primary investigators.

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

 
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226. Biologics, Guns, and Secrets: A Deep Dive into the Larry Ford Case with Sheldon Fung

Today, Justin welcomes retired FBI supervisory special agent James Gaylord. Jim spent nearly 32 years with the FBI, including six years supervising a counterintelligence squad at the Los Angeles Field Office's Santa Ana Resident Agency. If you're a longtime listener of the podcast, you might remember Jim as one of our earliest guests from episode 12, recorded nearly four and a half years ago. Today he's back to talk about two of the most famous cases he ran as case agent. It's the story of The FBI's hunt for China's most prolific spy family. Chi Mak, his family, and Greg Chung were US citizens operating at the behest of the People's Republic of China government and its intelligence services, targeting some of the most sensitive American military knowledge in use at the time.

Catch Jim's original appearance on Ep 12: Life in FBI Counterintelligence here.

Connect with Jim:

chasingchibook.com

LinkedIn: James Gaylord

Check out the book: Chasing Chi, here.

https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Chi-Groundbreaking-Pursuit-Prolific/dp/1493091964

Connect with Spycraft 101:

Get Justin's latest book, Murder, Intrigue, and Conspiracy: Stories from the Cold War and Beyond, here.

spycraft101.com

IG: @spycraft101

Shop: shop.spycraft101.com

Patreon: Spycraft 101

Find Justin's first book, Spyshots: Volume One, here.

Check out Justin's second book, Covert Arms, here.

Download the free eBook, The Clandestine Operative's Sidearm of Choice, here.

Kruschiki

The best surplus military goods delivered right to your door. Use code SPYCRAFT101 for 10% off!

 
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225. How the FBI Caught China's Most Prolific Spy Family with James Gaylord

Today, author and journalist John Pomfret shares details about the true story of an interesting alliance involving Polish spies aiding the United States. After years of working against each other, ex-communist spies in Poland following a democratic election ended up working hand in hand with the country they'd been pinned against for most of the Cold War.

Connect with John:
johnpomfret.com
Twitter: @JEPomfret
Check out his book, From Warsaw with Love, here.

https://www.amazon.com/Warsaw-Love-Forging-Unlikely-Alliance/dp/1250296056

Connect with Spycraft 101:
IG: @spycraft101
Patreon: Spycraft 101
Buy the book: here on Amazon

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27. The Unlikely Alliance between the CIA and Ex-Communist Polish Intelligence with John Pomfret

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