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Special Agent FBI (Career Examination Series)

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Supplement Only
Common Since
Waste of Time and Money
Practical excercises to prepare you for the phase I exam
Excellent Study Aid

Special Agent FBI (Career Examination Series)
Jack Rudman
Manufacturer: National Learning Corp
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National Geographic - The FBI

ASIN: 0837310601

Customer Reviews:

Supplement Only.......2007-04-27

There are many practice exams in this book, scattered among other filler material, but only a few will really prepare you for the real thing. This would be a good supplement to better test preps such as the GRE/MCAT or other Civil Service Exam math prep books. Some of the materials are completely irrelevant to the FBI and appear to just be a compilation of other occupational exams that were photocopied and bound in some guys basement in the mid 80's. I was successful in the real exam but would only use portions of this book as a part of one's study routine.

Common Since.......2007-03-20

When you read reviews for study guides like this one, bear in mind that if someone gives it a bad review it is more than likely because they failed the exam. This guide is a good one. Bear in mind that not everyone will is ideally suited to be a Special Agent with the FBI. Not passing this exam can be a disappointment, but no one can legitimately blame this guide for not passing the test.

Waste of Time and Money.......2007-01-14

I took the FBI Entrance Exam and passed. If I hadn't already taken the TEA exam and had some math and reasoning experience I would have failed. This book did not help at all for the exam. Yes, it has lots of useful facts and pointers for interviewing and letting you know what a FBI Agent is all about, but that won't help you pass the test. Waste of money!!

Practical excercises to prepare you for the phase I exam.......2006-06-24

This book provides practice exams to prepare you for all parts of the phase I test. This is basically the only book of its kind. I haven't yet studied for the phase II portion, but the parts I skimmed seemed more than adequate.

Excellent Study Aid.......2002-03-30

I took the FBI written exam recently, and this book helped me understand the TYPE of questions involved. I don't think I would've passed the written tests without the aid of this book.

Great stuff!

Special Agent: My Life On the Front Lines As Woman in the FBI

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Solid story-telling with humor
Waste of money unless you want pure fiction
It Takes a Woman to do a Man's Job!
Candice gives as good as she gets!
An incredible profile of dedication and compassion

Special Agent: My Life On the Front Lines As Woman in the FBI
Candice DeLong
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No Backup: My Life as a Female FBI Special Agent

ASIN: 0786867078

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Readers may well find themselves looking nervously over their shoulders after finishing this memoir by Candice DeLong, who met a lot of Hannibal Lecter's soul mates during her 20 years as an FBI agent. An early practitioner of profiling, the analysis of crime data for what it reveals about the perpetrator, DeLong handled such ugly cases that she and her partner at one point were known as "the Gruesome Twosome." Her arrests included child molesters, rapists, and serial killers; among the book's useful features are her tips on what to do if you or your child is attacked. (Yell "Fire!" rather than "Help!" she advises; it attracts more attention.) Not that human nature's darker side was a surprise to DeLong, who came to the FBI from a job as head nurse in a maximum security psychiatric ward, where a violent paranoid schizophrenic crooned at her, "You better pray I never get out of these [restraints]. I could cut your head off. Or do you want me to tear your heart out?" The frank, conversational text ably captures the forceful personality of a female pioneer. The bureau had only been accepting women for eight years when DeLong joined in 1980, and her training at Quantico included brutal harassment by instructors determined to "wash out" any female applicant. Yet she had the toughness to survive and the good sense to know when to ignore her male colleagues' barbed jokes and when to kid them right back. Ultimately, she made friends and got ahead. As well as chronicling a stream of fascinating (and often deeply disturbing) high-profile cases such as the Unabomber, DeLong's narrative portrays a changing FBI, now valuing the special perspective contributed by female and African American agents it once scorned. --Wendy Smith

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Candice DeLong has been called a real-life Clarice Starling and a female Donnie Brasco. She has been on the front lines of some of the FBIs most gripping and memorable cases, including being chosen as one of the three agents to carry out the manhunt for the Unabomber in Lincoln, Montana. She has tailed terrorists, gone undercover as a gangsters moll, and posed as the madam for a call-girl ring. Now for the first time she reveals the dangers and rewards of being a woman on the front lines of the worlds most powerful law enforcement agency. She traces the unusual career path that led her to crime fighting, and recounts the incredible obstacles she faced as a woman and as a fledgling agent. She takes readers step by step through the profiling process and shows how she helped solve a number of incredible cases. The story of her role as a lead investigator on the notorious Tylenol Murderer case is particularly compelling. Finally, she gives the true, insiders story behind the investigation that led to the arrest of the Unabomberincluding information that the media cant or wont reveal. A remarkable portrait of courage and grace under fire, Special Agent offers a missing chapter to the annals of law enforcement and a dramatic and often funny portrait of an extraordinary woman who has dedicated her heart and soul to the crusade against crime.Candice DeLongs Top Cases: 1. TYMURS-(Bureau acronym for Tylenol Murders)8 victims, 1982. 2. F.A.L.N. Terrorist Organization, 198184. 3. Melissa Ackerman kidnap/rape/murder, 1986Serial child killer Brian Dugan (Illinois). Brian Dugan was the most prolific serial killer Illinois had ever encountered. 4. The Burlington Rapist (Illinois serial rapist), 1984. 5. The Lecherous Landlord was the first and most significant Discrimination in Housing case in the history of the Chicago FBI. 6. Undercover work on UNABOM, including an afternoon with Ted Kaczynski on his arrest day, April 3, 1996.

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Solid story-telling with humor.......2007-05-12

This isn't the best book I've ever read but it's a fun and interesting read about her career in the FBI. She wisely chose stories from her career (which must have been difficult with so many years of experience) and always included down-to-earth humor and humility when appropriate. When she entered, the FBI was still adjusting to having women agents but she remained strong, taking the high road on many occasions when she was not treated fairly. As a result, her career flourished and her life is a story worth hearing. She is truly a trailblazer. Just nobody call her Candy.

Waste of money unless you want pure fiction.......2005-10-15

This book should be listed under "fiction," because that's what it is. Ms. DeLong is a legend in her mind and her mind only. Anyone who reads this and believes Ms. DeLong actually did the things she claimed to do is living in a dream, just like Ms. DeLong. Don't waste your money. Ms. DeLong is as much a real life Clarice Starling as Barney Fife is Elliot Ness. I would recommend the book if you are looking for a good laugh. I rated this garbage one star because I wasn't given the choice of zero or negative stars.

It Takes a Woman to do a Man's Job!.......2005-05-15

This was an interesting book about Candice Delong written by Elisa Petrini. Before becoming connected with the FBI, she'd been a nurse in a psychiatric ward. She was a divorced mother then, still something of a stigma in the early 1980s. In the late '80s she was assigned to the cocaine trafficing in Chicago.

There was a drug pipeline which stretched from the South American country of Columbia, then the cocaine capital of the hemisphere, up through Mexico into Texas; from there to Chicago. I've been told that it went through Lawrenceburg, TN on the way North.

There is a manadatory minimum 20-yr. sentence for anyone caught with ten or more kilograms of cocaine (about 22 lbs.). Each kilo is the size of a brick and worth $15,000 - 30,000 depending on the quality of the drug. Heroin is a lot more. She had some interesting times working with DEA in narcotics, even being tricked into babysitting for the informant on her first case.

She was involved in the Unabomber case and the way they discovered it was a former University of California at Berkley (where Savage (Weiner) may have found his cocaine) professor. She was in on the specifics in Montana,trapping Ted Kaezynski in 1996. Then back to San Francisco, where Savage settled.

She gives good pointers on how to handle home invastion or sexual assault. Always yell "Fire." There are almost twice as many sex crimes against women over sixty as certain killers go after the older women to act out their anger toward the strong female figures in their lives and the fact that elderly women are easier to control. Compliance is by no means the same as consent.

Rape is all about power, not sex. A woman's goal is to survive the attack. About 41% of rapes and sex assaults are committed by acquaintances of the victim. Sex offenders don't think like normal men and are always on the alert for what they think of as "provacative" behavior or dress.

After twenty years, she became a private citizen again and went on the lecture circuit. She is proud of her achievements and the privilege to work as a 'public servant' in the FBI.

Candice gives as good as she gets!.......2003-12-23

What an excellent read! The characters and relationships are very intriguing-the author's world is filled with both obvious and subtle villains, as well as obvious and subtle heroes. Candice herself is fun, likeable and strong enough to give as good as she gets. Though she is being constantly second-guessed, undermined and underestimated, she ends up turning her "weakness" into advantage time and again. The author sets up the rivalry between the FBI and the DEA and her unique role walking between the two. Highly recommended.

An incredible profile of dedication and compassion.......2003-10-09

Candice Delong tells it like it is. This book held me riveted and page turning. I could not put it down. Ms. Delong exemplifies a woman who is dedicated to justice and the right thing to do. At great personal expense Delong did her job. However, as a mother, she had her priorities clearly defined. Delong's son was her greatest priority. The part about the Unibomber wearing her son's coat touched me deeply. This lady is indeed a national hero. In all the turmoil that America is involved in, it is wonderful to read about a woman who has made a difference in so many lives. Courage, integrity, and ethics all apply to this amazing woman.

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This edition is out of print and no new edition is planned at this time.

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Great Book and the best grade ranking you'll have........2007-03-11

Great book for studyng to take the TEA Exam. All the items that appears in the book have relation with the ones in the test. You will have a good score taking the test.

EXCELLENT BOOK.......2007-03-10

THIS IS THE BEST AND THE ONLY BOOK TO EXCEL IN TEA EXAM. I SAT FOR IRS TEA EXAM ON 03/09/07 AND I MUST SAY THAT PART A & B WERE MUCH EAIER THAN THIS BOOK. MATHEMATHICAL SECTION IS ABSENT IN IRS TEA EXAM.
IF YOU CAN SCORE 70% ON THIS BOOK, ITS MUCH LIKELY THAT YOU WOULD SCORE OVER 80% ON THE ACTUAL TEST.

Passed the test after studying with this book..........2007-02-04

I passed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) Special Agent/Criminal Investigator test after studying with this book. I wouldn't go into the testing center without spending at least a few weeks with this book. Highly recommend.

This is the one people-Look no further!!.......2006-12-02

This study book is wonderful. I was told that this book would assist me in passing the TEA; and it did. The math examples and explanation given in the book is the best. The investigation questions were extremely helpful. I took the test this past week and passed. Normally, I get very scared and nervous during tests. But no worries with this one. Don't get me wrong, the test is extremely difficult. Without this book helping me to prepare I would have failed-big time. If you prepare with this book, you will pass. Get this book PEOPLE. It will help you. I have to add that I passed the TEA on the first try.

Great!.......2006-10-28

I used the book to study for the TEA exam. It gave much better examples of what to expect on the actual test than some other books I purchased. The reading and investigative questions were helpful. If you're not good at math, you should refresh yourself elsewhere, but the review is great if you are.

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A both stunning and candid look into the life of a woman in the FBI
Amazing book, amazing woman....

Special Agent
Candice Delong
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Fascinating account of life on the front lines in the FBI by the "real-life Clarice Starling." For twenty-five years Candice DeLong was on the front lines of some of the FBI's most memorable and gripping cases. She has tailed terrorists, gone undercover as a gangster's moll, and was one of the agents chosen to carry out the manhunt for the Unabomber in Montana. She reveals the dangers and rewards of her career as a field profiler, one of the most fascinating and challenging branches in the Bureau. Now retired, Agent DeLong offers a "day-in-the-life" glimpse of her work. A remarkable account of courage and grace under fire, Special Agent offers a missing chapter to the annals of law enforcement literature and a dramatic and often funny portrait of an extraordinary woman who has dedicated her life to the crusade against crime.

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A both stunning and candid look into the life of a woman in the FBI.......2007-03-14

Candice DeLong's father wanted her to do something besides going into the FBI. He didn't view it as a femine thing to do. However, she went for it, passed the FBI Academy at Quantico's high standards with flying colors, and proceeded to embark on a rewarding career as a woman in a field dominated by men. She candidly discusses her work on cases and her personal life during those 20 years. She is able to address the sometimes sexist views held by her male peers without causing tension. I highly recommend this book. It provides both a good look into the FBI, and good information that every person should know.

Amazing book, amazing woman...........2002-08-07

I picked this book up on lay over at O'Hare, it was so engrossing I was annoyed at having to stop reading to board my plane. Candice Delong brings you into her life so thoroughly you feel like she's a close friend by the end, and you want more. A truly amazing women she stands for equal rights and feminism in a way that speaks to everyone. This book will appeal to a wide range of audiences, and is definitely worth picking up!

The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes

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What's With The Watermelon?
still great
Dale Cooper, His Lives-His Tapes

The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes
Mark Frost
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What's With The Watermelon?.......2003-04-30

This is a wonderful tie-in to the whole "Twin Peaks" mythos. The book is written in the style of a transcript of tapes that Dale Cooper made throughout his life - from childhood, through the initial Windham Earl affair, and ending with the call for Cooper to head to Twin Peaks. (Oddly enough, that's where "Diane..." the audiobook picks up.) Author Scott Frost (brother of Mark Frost, co-creator of "Twin Peaks" with David Lynch) captures the quirky nature of Dale Cooper and the Twin Peaks universe perfectly. From amusing anecdotes in childhood to experiments in college (seeing how long he can go without sleep, without urinating) and beyond, "My Life, My Tapes" helps fill in the unknown quantities of the enigmatic Dale Cooper. If you're a "Twin Peaks" fan who hasn't found a copy of this book yet, I encourage you to do so. It is a wonderful read.

still great.......2000-05-04

I bought this book when I was in eight grade and I connected with it instantly. I'm 24 now and it is still as touching as it was then. I really feel for dale coopers's character. He has so much go wrong and yet he keeps his inocent perspective on the turbulent world around him. This my sound lame, but I think this is a truly great coming of age story.

Dale Cooper, His Lives-His Tapes.......1997-12-05

Dale Cooper, How could someone like this write spmething like this? it's beyond me. Dale's life seems to much for anyone but he managed to keep himself together. His closest friends and family all desert him one way or another yet somehow he keeps his head up. I was so amazed by this book and this life thatI am in the process of writing a dramatic script to coinside with it. This book is someone's life this should be shared with everyone. Dale Cooper His Life- His Tapes

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Informative and Interesting
Informative--That's what I needed.
Informative, but dull

To Be an FBI Special Agent (To Be A)
Henry Holden
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Informative and Interesting.......2007-06-05

This is the fourth book I have read which is intended to prepare the reader for, and generally teach about, the FBI special agent hiring and training processes. Of those that I have read, this is the only one that doesn't feel like it copied 99% of its contents straight out of an FBI manual.

Informative--That's what I needed........2006-09-12

A different reviewer of this book said it was dull and boring. Personally, I find the book to be a great read. If you know nothing, or very little about the FBI and are interested in possibly becoming a SA then this book is the book for you. It's very informative. If however, you know a lot already about the FBI then I can see how the book would be boring.

Informative, but dull.......2005-10-18

Unlike other nonfiction FBI books like both Ronald Kessler exposés or Christopher Whitcomb's "Cold Zero", this book lays out bare facts about the FBI. It takes you through the process of applying to become an FBI agent, what you'll encounter as a trainee at the Quantico Academy and what areas of the FBI deal with what criminal challenges.

This book reminded me of a college textbook. It has great information and lots of detailed pictures with good explanations. But you just can't read this book for long periods of time without getting bored.

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Lurid and Lusty Camp.......2006-11-27

How can one not like this book? It is a fun parody of Agent 007 and boasts a protagonist who is a living, walking, talking sex machine who just happens to be a "secret agent". The story is silly, the sex is CONSTANT and highly charged, and the out-come a hoot. THIS BOOK IS THE ULTIMATE IN MINDLESS ENTERTAINMENT that will stir your loins and put a smile on your face.

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Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason
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Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir

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In SPECIAL AGENT, VIETNAM, Douglass H. Hubbard, Jr., relates the story of a highly dedicated and professional group of men who served voluntarily as officers, enlisted men, and civilian special agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence in Vietnam. Through Hubbard's eyes—he served three consecutive tours as one of about two dozen civilian agents—the reader enters the clandestine and often dangerous world of counterespionage and crime, all amid the sights, sounds, and smells of the Vietnam War.

Civilian special agents, despite their rather uncertain combat status as civilians, left secure stateside jobs and families behind, donned military uniforms, and carried weapons. They lived and worked in the field with sailors and Marines. They shared the same dangers and discomforts as military personnel, and, sometimes cooperating with their Vietnamese counterparts, supplied the naval services with counterintelligence and criminal investigative support. From communist infiltrators and fragging incidents to the murder of a visiting singer, Hubbard skillfully portrays the underlying chaos of a tour in Vietnam.

SPECIAL AGENT, VIETNAM is the only book that addresses this aspect of the Vietnam War. It will appeal not only to those with an interest in the U.S. presence in wartime Vietnam, but also to those interested generally in military history, intelligence, counterintelligence, and criminal investigation.

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Excellent Individual Report - VN War.......2007-06-26

This book details one man's tour and those of others he interviewed. It shows what happened at the lowest level of their work but shows little of what resulted from their work.
I would very much like to contact the author about a Navy LtCmdr or Cmdr Van Horn or Van Hook who was in Viet Nam who might be known to him. I need to contact this man to tell him I accomplished a joint service mission he gave me, when I was a Army SP5.

Well written history of the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) in Vietnam.......2007-03-22

The book is an historical account of the activities of the Naval Investigative Service in Vietnam. The personal stories of the author and many other agents assigned to Vietnam were most interesting to read. As a former Special Agent with both the NIS and DIS, many familiar names appear in the narrative. If you like "war stories" and have been in the business, you should read this book.

A very interesting look at the war as you may have never dreamt the war to be..........2006-07-14

I recommend his book (I thoroughly enjoyed & learned much reading his book *****!). So please consider ordering it for yourself and please email/pass this on to others and to especially any active duty folks and vets you may know (please send this info up and down your "chain of command" :-). The author worked as an Naval Investigative Service (NIS) special agent in Vietnam for three years as the youngest and longest serving agent during the war there (that agency is now called NCIS...), so as you can imagine during wartime, besides this being a great personal story on the people there, this is a very interesting look at the war as you may have never dreamt the war to be...:

Band of Agents.......2006-07-13

Douglass H. Hubbard Jr., born in 1945, joined the Naval Investigative Service Office in Washington, D.C. and became an agent. With dreams of catching spies, he volunteered for service in Vietnam. "I was 23," he writes. "The world was my apple." It was 1969; that year U.S. troop strength would peak at more than half a million. He chose Da Nang.

His story, and that of many of the two dozen Naval Intelligence civilian special agents who also served in Vietnam, is told in "Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir" ($26.95 in hardcover from Potomac Books). Hubbard stayed in Vietnam for three year-long tours, the most of any Naval Intelligence Service (NIS) agent.

Hubbard notes the passage of time has taken its toll on the agents who served there. Some have died, memories have clouded; he writes that "it fell to me, more than four decades after the first agent deployment (in 1962), to tell as much of that story as possible."

The Navy refused "to confirm or deny the existence of all the documents and photographs that we had written and submitted," so Hubbard has instead relied on interviews with surviving agents, his own memories and publicly available information. The book includes helpful maps, photographs of the agents and a glossary of seemingly numberless military acronyms. The result is a careful study of the role of NIS agents in South Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in 1975. Hubbard's language is measured, but there is passion behind the words.

He investigated allegations of drug use among troops, suicides, rape, mail fraud, smuggling, spying and the death of Australian entertainer Catherine Ann Warnes (whose stage name was Cathy Wayne) in 1969. She "had been shot while performing with her troupe at the staff and officers' club" at a base in Da Nang. (A Marine sergeant was eventually arrested.)

Then there was "fragging," the use of a fragmentation grenade to cause mayhem or settle personal scores. Hubbard writes that "the small M26 frag packed a huge wallop. Its high-explosive charge was wrapped by strands of serrated stainless-steel wire, fragments of which traveled at several thousand feet per second on detonation -- providing a kill radius of about 15 meters."

Some cases were motivated by racial tension, such as the one in 1970 involving Pvt. Ronald McDonald, USMC, who, Hubbard writes, "may well have been a product of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's social engineering plan to fill vacancies in the armed forces by lowering entry standards." McDonald managed to obtain a British 36 "Mills Bomb" fragmentation grenade to use against an officer he felt had insulted him. The grenade went off, the officer survived, but McDonald got 80 years. One of the agents who worked the case told Hubbard in an interview, "They led this guy away in handcuffs, but he was still giving the black power salute."

After his time in Vietnam, Hubbard left the NIS to explore business ventures. He returned to Vietnam in the late 1990s and found much of the destruction had disappeared. "A visitor to Vietnam who knew the country during the war will probably at some point ponder about what difference America's brave attempt to rescue South Vietnam made. As I stared out over the verdant rice paddies in the former demilitarized zone ... I was prompted to think that, despite a preponderance of altruism, we had mattered very little in the context of Vietnam's two millennia of history."

Copyright 2006 Chico Enterprise-Record. Used by permission.

Warts and all.......2006-05-19

This book obviously tells it like it really was: the uncertainties, frustrations and unusual challenges of a unique group of men working to accomplish the counterintelligence and investigative missions in war-time Vietnam. And what a work place it must have been. The author's 36 months of continuous service as a Special Agent certainly qualify him to tell this warts-and-all story, including the chaotic aspects - command indifference and a military justice system frequently in disarray. Good reading for anybody with an interest in the intelligence world and the lessons to be learned from these stories.

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