Nick Mariano-Author

I should mention that I have been retired more than 20 years after having served the United States Government for close to 30 years. As you read some of my accounts and stories you may think to yourself this guy is nuts, Special Agents don’t do this kind of shit. They’d be disciplined or fired on the spot. Today that would be more than true as we have seen with recent incidents involving government agents being involved in sexual scandals, lack of discipline or not carrying out their duties and having people injured or killed. The stories I’m telling you happened over 25-30 years ago when the government was a different animal and people did shit which never got reported or disciplined for what we did. They were different times. Terrorism wasn’t what it is today.

We had demonstrations against embassies overseas, deranged persons attacking our protected persons and isolated incidents, but no Taliban or Al Qaeda. Yes, some of the things we did were stupid when I look back now but nonetheless we did them and later laughed about it. I should also say, despite my stories, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security of the United States Department of State, is now one of the most, if not the most professional, well trained and multi-trained law enforcement organization in the United States Government or the world.