Meet former FBI Special Agent Maria Witkop turned author... She was a Certified Crisis Negotiator on the Seattle FBI team for over 10 years (and then led the team for several more years). Her highly successful career spanned the gamut from from undercover sting operations and complex financial crimes to long-term sophisticated nation state espionage investigations.
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Selected and trained as an FBI negotiator, Agent Witkop taught hundreds of State and Local law enforcement officers how to build trust in life threatening situations to achieve peaceful resolutions. Her ability to work with people from across the world and her advanced degree in International Diplomacy expanded her career into the FBI’s elite Behavioral Analysis Program. A distinguished program comprised of forensic psychologists and seasoned counterintelligence agents who serve as national security “profilers”. In her leadership role on both these critical teams, Agent Witkop engendered, sustained, and enhanced relationships of trust. She recruited individuals from authoritarian regimes around the world who risked their lives to protect the security of the United States.
And now she's written a book! Reach! Rewriting the Story of Power!
Journey through the life and career of an FBI agent as she is exposed to some of the darkest acts of humanity, forcing her to face her past. Meet a heroin addict who stopped a corrupt police officer. Stand in the woods to discover the burial of a young girl. Join the evidence team deployed after 9/11 in search of answers. Follow clandestine clues that take you across the globe and against time to unveil the wolves of espionage.
Agent Witkop joined the FBI to gain power and protect herself from a past of addiction, abuse, and distrust, but the familiar stories of her childhood showed up again and again in her casework. Confessions of abuse and admissions of fear disclosed by individuals throughout her career burrowed into the secrets she carried.
Meet the author and pick up a copy of this inspirational book!!!
Saturday June 10th at 4 pm (to 5:30 pm).