Naveed jamali biography

Naveed Jamali


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After his successful run as a civilian double agent, Naveed Jamali accepted a reserve commission in the US Navy. He has spent more than a decade in technology management at a senior level. He continues to advise and speak on matters of security, counter-intelligence, and understanding the motivation to spy. A life-long New Yorker, Naveed lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. He has no intention of travelling to Russia any time soon.

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Series

Books:

How to Catch a Russian Spy, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

How to Catch a Russian Spy

How to Catch a Russian Spy

INTRODUCTION

I gripped the wheel tightly and steered the Jeep toward the warehouse. My heart was thumping so hard I thought Oleg might be able to hear it in the passenger seat.

“You okay?” he asked in that flat, stiff English of his.

“Totally,” I lied.

The air was chilly for early April, but the morning was unusually bright. The year was 2008, nearly two decades after the Berlin Wall tumbled and the Cold War was consigned to the history books. The Jeep was a black-on-black SRT8 6.1-liter Hemi V8 with 425 horsepower and all the subtlety of a cinder block through a giant plate of glass.

I’d been waiting for this day for almost two years. Ted and Terry, my FBI handlers, had been gaming it out with me for nearly six months. What would I say when Oleg asked how much money I wanted? What would I do if he pulled out a gun? Lately, things between us had grown unusually tense. The agents had done what they could to prepare me. But all along they kept telling me, “You have to be ready to think on your feet.”

What the hell did th

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Naveed Jamali – Ellis Henican: How to Catch a Russian Spy

Naveed Alexis Jamali (born February 20, 1976) is a prominent American commentator on national security and former FBI asset. He worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He is the author of the non-fiction book How to Catch a Russian Spy (ISBN 978-1476788821). He also cochairs the Swatting Mitigation Advisory Committee for the Seattle Police Department.

Biography

Jamali was born to a French mother and a Pakistani father who met attending graduate school in New York. They later opened a research procurement agency in New York, New York, called Fascient Books, Inc., which specialized in finding academic and open-source material. Starting in 1988, they cooperated with the FBI, which was interested in Soviet (and later Russian) intelligence agents after they came into their office requesting to do business.

Jamali graduated from New York University (1999) with a degree in Political Science and Government. After 9/11, he reached out to

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