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A memoir of a female special agent's thirteen years with the FBI, an expose of the Bureau's sexist practices, and a warning about how failings that affect our nation's security are passed from generation to generation of FBI agents. Rosemary Dew, who earned the title of Special Agent of the FBI, was recipient of eight commendations from FBI directors, and was the seventh woman to be named supervisor at FBI head-quarters, has opened up the files on the FBI and revealed a broken organization rife with discriminatory practices. Dew worked undercover against criminals, spies, and terrorists. She supervised the bureau's international response to the Achille Lauro hijacking and signed the arrest warrant for Leon Klinghoffer's kidnapper, Abu Abbas. Yet for all her accomplishments, Rosemary Dew remained a "female" agent first and "special" agent second, treated with disdain, sexually harassed, and denied the opportunities and privileges of male agents. In her riveting memoir, Dew relives the life of an FBI agent, from the training academy to the most sensitive missions of national security. As her tale unfolds, so too do the FBI's many problems, communications failures, and deficiencies that she links to pre- and post-9/11 botched cases, scandals, and cover-ups. Equally disturbing is the bureau's persistent lack of cooperation with other investigative agencies, an attitude instilled from its inception by J. Edgar Hoover. Even as she tried to infiltrate the Black Panther Party by posing as a prostitute, participated in undercover weapons purchases from white supremacist groups, investigated the Aryan Nations' killing of talk-show host Alan Berg, and worked presidential protective details,Special Agent Dew could see the writing on the wall: The FBI is a dysfunctional family where those who don't fit the Hoover mold are not welcome. In No Backup, Dew makes a powerful call for change and lays out a blueprint for FBI reform. Everyone concerned with our nation's highest crime-fighting agency, our national security, and women's rights will find No Backup an absolute must-read.
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This book covers the thirteen years that Dew spent as a Special Agent, the right wing murder of Denver talk show host Alan Berg, and the persistent chauvinism that finally drove her from the Bureau.
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Rosemary Dew, who earned the title of Special Agent of the FBI, was recipient of eight commendations from FBI directors, and was the seventh woman to be named supervisor at FBI headquarters, has opened up the files on the agency and reveals a broken organization rife with discriminatory practices. Dew worked undercover against criminals, spies, and terrorists. She supervised the bureau's international response to the Achille Lauro hijacking and signed the arrest warrant for Abu Abbas. Yet for all her accomplishments, Rosemary Dew remained a "female" agent first and "special" agent second, treated with disdain, sexually harassed, and denied the opportunities and privileges of male agents. In her memoir, Dew relives her FBI life from the training academy to the most sensitive missions of national security. As her tale unfolds, so do the FBI's many problems, one of them being the bureau's persistent lack of cooperation with other investigative agencies an attitude instilled from its inception by J. Edgar Hoover. Special Agent Dew views the FBI as a dysfunctional family where those who don't fit the Hoover mold are not welcome. In No Backup, Dew makes a powerful call for change and lays out a blueprint for FBI reform.
Synopsis
This is a memoir of a female special agent's 13 years with the FBI, an expos of the Bureau's sexist practices, and a warning about how failings that affect our nation's security are passed from generation to generation of FBI agents.