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Highlights
- Former FBI agent Jeffery Iverson chronicles the collaboration between the FBI and Russian authorities in the decades following the fall of the Soviet Union.
- About the Author: Jeffrey Iverson spent twenty-two years as a Special Agent of the FBI.
- 228 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
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 bet...Book Synopsis
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.
Review Quotes
In the Belly of the Bear is an insightful and candid take on an intriguing former Soviet world by a senior FBI agent who experienced it on the ground both in Moscow and Central Asia. Much of what Mr. Iverson experienced then is very relevant to what is happening now in Moscow and throughout Russia under Putin's rule.
In Belly of the Bear offers a unique insider perspective on the times we are currently seeing in the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. Jeffrey Iverson has an insight unavailable to most Americans on where Russia has been and where U.S./Russian relations are today. His insight is eye-opening and a warning to us all.
Jeff Iverson is the real deal. If you want to understand the post-Cold War fight against Eurasian organized crime from the working level, In the Belly of the Bear is the book you should read.
This is a "true north" book on Russia. As an FBI Special Agent investigating Russian criminal activities inthe US, and later, because of his specialized investigative background and Russian language expertise, Mr. Iverson was named the FBI Legal Attaché in Moscow, where he got an "insider look" into Russia that few Americans have actually experienced. Timely, revealing and insightful.
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.
