John Guandolo

So I grew up in Maryland, went to the Naval Academy, took a commission as a Marine officer, served as an infantry and reconnaissance officer in the US Marine Corps, served in combat, left the Marine Corps and joined the FBI and served in the criminal division for about five years.

And after 9-11, transitioned over to the counterterrorism division and through a series of investigations.

came to see that not only are the most prominent Islamic organizations in the United States hostile, uh, primarily Muslim brotherhood organizations, uh, but the leaders of these organizations were, and in many cases still are the exclusive, uh, advisors to state local and federal, uh, organizations, the government.

And that's why, um, uh,

I believe we are in the situation we are today where our leaders have been leaning on the enemy to tell us how to defeat the enemy.

But because of this experience and because I was working with agents and police officers and analysts and others in and out of the federal government, state and local government,

who did not know this, I started meeting with them and teaching them, which culminated in the summer of 2006 with I put together the first training on the Islamic movement globally and in the United States and how to deal with it.

And

After that, got recruited out of the FBI by the Department of Defense by Rich Higgins in the irregular warfare section and began doing this work at a strategic, much more strategic level and briefing senior leaders.

So it's, first of all, it's kind of a good story.

A colleague of mine, a very close friend and very experienced warrior said, hey, if you're doing what you're doing, and I was still in the FBI at the time, he said, you've got to talk to Rich Higgins.

So he gave me Rich's personal number and I called him on a Friday night and I introduced myself.

I said, there's John Guadalupe with the FBI.

And tomorrow morning, I'm

briefing a very small select group of people with my colleague from the DOD.

And I'm told you should be there.

And he laughed and he's like, am I under investigation or something?

He actually tells this book, this story in his book.

But he shows up.

Steve Coghlan and I brief him on the Islamic threat, on the Muslim Brotherhood, and on beyond the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranians, the Diobandis, the whole Islamic network in the United States.