Eric O'Neill: Former FBI Agent, Author of Gray Day and the Subject of Universal Studios’ feature film, Breach

<div>In this week’s riveting episode, Marcus has a fascinating discussion with Eric O’Neill, former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative. Eric played a major role in the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of one of the most notorious spies in U.S. history - FBI agent Robert Hanssen - who was spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia. Eric’s first-hand accounts of some of his day-to-day activities are events that movies are made of. He has written about his experiences in <em>Gray Day</em>: <em>My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy.</em> Eric is also a public speaker and security expert who lectures internationally about espionage and national security, cybersecurity, fraud, corporate diligence and defense, hacking, and other topics.</div> <div> <br> <strong>In this episode you will hear:</strong> </div> <ul> <li>My job at the FBI was to go undercover. I never came out of cover.</li> <li>There were foreign intelligence officers (spies) who sometimes were some of our own who were spying for other countries.</li> <li>My father told me “You have to chase your dreams, whatever they might be.”</li> <li>I’m going to stop spies &amp; terrorists before they kill our citizens.</li> <li>I was at Quantico [Marine Corps Training Base]. You earn it and you feel like you earned it.</li> <li>When my wife and I were dating and people would ask me what I do, I would say “I work for the Justice Department as a Geo-Political Analyst.” That would immediately end the inquiry.</li> <li>There was an instance where a high-level spy was about to be arrested, and disappear, which told us there was a mole in our intelligence community.</li> <li>The FBI went on a 22-year manhunt for a guy code-named Gray Suit, the biggest spy in U.S. history.</li> <li>Each time you go after somebody who might be the target you’re after, you give them a derivative code name.</li> <li>What made Robert Hanssen such a successful spy, is that he was a hacker. He learned how to break into computer systems.</li> <li>Wh