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Frank Storey

Frank Storey

Former FBI agent who spent 30 years investigating and dismantling organized crime, including New York's Five Mafia families; author of "The FBI's War Against the Mafia."

Sep 2, 2026

13:34
Please go ahead.
13:36
Well, so anyway, I went off to Quantico for training, and it was a 14-week course.
13:45
And I handled it very well, except I had a difficult time on a firing range.
13:53
You have to qualify with a firearm, a .38 revolver back then.
13:58
And I had a thing with the trigger pull where I was anticipating the shot, and the bullet would just go a little bit off to the left or whatever.
14:07
So I had to have extra batting practice.
14:10
And the firearms instructor of a man named, an agent named George Zeiss, he was six feet eight, and he had this bellowing voice and so forth.

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52:54
Can you transition now to New York and your New York experience? Because that is huge in taking down these guys.
VladHOST
2:09
Okay, well, leading up to college, after you graduated high school, did you know you wanted to go into law enforcement?
2:15
No, no.
2:16
Uh, what happened, I was at La Salle, La Salle College, uh, I believe it was my sophomore year, and I was coming out of the library and walking towards my car, and I was working for the, the FBI at the time.
2:33
And, uh, one of my classmates pulled up and shouted at me, "Frank, they just shot Kennedy." And, uh, with those words, I started running towards my car, and I had no idea why I was running, but I jumped in my car and turned on the radio and headed towards the Schuylkill Expressway towards downtown Philadelphia.
2:54
And within minutes, they said a priest is on his way into the hospital, and then a few minutes later they announced that he'd died.
3:02
And I was so upset, I had to pull the car over to the side of the road, and I wept.
3:09
Uh, I wept for the president, I wept for our country, and I went right into the FBI office thinking they might need me, although it was earlier in the day.

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VladHOST
31:34
So how do you put all this together?

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