| Download Photo 1 | Richard L. | Ault, Jr | MO - Kansas City; OH - Cleveland | 1969 - 1994 | Operation Slammer, SNARF, Flacon and the Snowman | Behavioral Science Unit, Earl Pitts, John Walker, Robert Hanssen | For the FBI Oral History Heritage Project sponsored by the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc., which holds the copyright to the material.
Special Agent Ault served in the FBI from 1969 to 1994. This interview took place on September 1, 2009. Interviewed by Stanley A. Pimentel.
Raised all over the world in a military family, SA Ault joined the Marines after high school and served in Vietnam, Cambodia, and during the Cuban Missile crisis. He left the Marines, went to college, and graduated after earning a Bachelor of Science degree and Masters degree. He entered on duty with the FBI in 1969.
SA Ault’s first office was the Kansas City Field Office followed by the Cleveland Field Office, where he worked Violent Extremist Matters and the Organized Crime Squad.
He transferred to the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. He became the psychologist to and for the intelligence side of the FBI. Ault tells of how he began working in the espionage program in 1985 – The Year of the Spy.
In presenting the possibility of interviewing spies, Ault became part of a joint field study with several other agencies. Ault talks in detail about many of these interviews. He adds an explanation of the Behavioral Assessment Program.
He tells of working one specific event with the Hostage Negotiation Team when the Washington Monument was threatened. He talks about a variety of spies and also points out the difference between terrorists and spies and the approaches appropriate to each. He describes some of his work with regard to assessments. | Download PDF 1 | | |