How does a special agent with the FBI live undercover? How does an investigator tell his own government that torture is illegal? Meet Jim Clemente. Question him and listen to his stories in conversation with Humphrey Hawksley.
12.00 noon BST
Goldster Purpose, Passion, Grit
In the mid-80’s, while working as a prosecutor in Manhattan, Jim Clemente was determined that the head of a summer camp who abused him when he was just fifteen should be punished. He went undercover to help in the arrest. The FBI then offered Jim a job, and he became a criminal profiler with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. During his time with the FBI, Jim spent three years undercover as a Wall Street broker, helping bust a price-fixing scam. He was a first responder at the destruction of the Twin Tower on Nine Eleven from which he contracted cancer.
He was brought in to consult on interrogation after the controversy at Guantánamo Bay, becoming one of the first to officially report that the CIA was using illegal torture methods on detainees. During his long and adventurous career, Jim has investigated serial killers, serial rapists, child abduction and child homicide cases. Now retired from the FBI, Jim started a film XG Production which re-created an old television show America’s Most Wanted, using state of the art technology to find and capture dangerous fugitives. As a victim of child abuse and sufferer of cancer, Jim has forged an incredible path of high risk and high reward. How does a special agent with the FBI live undercover? How does an investigator tell his own government that torture is illegal?
Meet Jim Clemente. Question him and listen to his stories in conversation with Humphrey Hawksley on Goldster Purpose, Passion and Grit at 12.00 May 17th.
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