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

by Jeffrey Iverson (Author)

Former FBI agent Jeffery Iverson chronicles the collaboration between the FBI and Russian authorities in the decades following the fall of the Soviet Union. Part cultural history, part international thriller, Iverson details successful criminal and terrorism investigations between the FBI and former Soviet authorities before the rise of Putin.

Author Biography

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.