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For 27 years he worked for the FBI, assuming dozens of identities without ever being unmasked. Marc Ruskin is a Franco-American spy who brought down drug and terrorist networks. For France Télévisions, he agreed to come back to his story in the streets of New York, which he knows by heart.
Drug lord one day, arms dealer the next. For more than 20 years, Franco-American Special Agent Marc Ruskin has infiltrated the largest criminal groups in the United States. At the time, this FBI policeman had trapped one of the largest counterfeit money traffickers in the country after six months of infiltration. He used a dozen different identities, he was never caught. Except that day, when in a restaurant in Queens, he almost died. Infiltrated in the Cosa Nostra, he arouses the suspicion of a mafioso. “He passed his hand behind my back to see if I had a microphone”, he recalls.
During his operations in New York, the FBI agent always returned home with great care, changing direction or suddenly speeding on the highway. Born in Paris to a French mother, Marc Ruskin spent 27 years at the FBI. Retired from service since 2012, he has been decorated many times. He is now married and a father, he has just published his memoirs in which he recounts his operations. For him, nothing will ever replace infiltration. The FBI recruits 600 new police officers each year, but few of them will become permanent undercover agents.