Steve Moore, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Retired 

 

Steve Moore was appointed an FBI Special Agent in 1983 at the age of 25 and served for 25 years. Steve’s early career was spent in covert operations against white supremacist organizations in northern Idaho and the northwest. Later, he led the investigations of many high-profile crimes in Los Angeles, including the first ever conviction for an anthrax threat, the Buford Furrow pre-school shooting/murder spree at a Jewish Community Center and the interdiction of a planned attack on California’s second-largest oil refinery.

 

The day after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Moore was selected to conduct the Los Angeles component of the 9/11 investigation and as a result of his team’s efforts, testified before the congressional “911 Commission.” The next year, he was named head of Al Qaeda investigations for the Los Angeles FBI and the year after that was tasked with creating and running the FBI squad responsible for the investigation of all acts of terrorism against the U.S. in Asia and Pakistan. This was (and remains) the largest territory covered by a single squad in the FBI. Bombings of U.S. Consulates, luxury hotels and attacks on U.S. military personnel were standard fare for the squad. Moore established liaison and worked closely with the CIA and U.S. State Department. As a result of these and other cases, Supervisory Special Agent Moore received three DOJ awards for excellence in investigations, and was nominated for the FBI Director’s “Outstanding Terrorism Investigation” award.

 

Steve has lectured on violent crime, investigations and terrorism at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok and served for a summer as a Legal Attaché at a U.S. Embassy. Five of his bureau years were spent on the Los Angeles FBI SWAT team as an assault “Operator” and sniper. Several more years were spent as an FBI helicopter pilot-in-command. Ultimately, Steve built up over 6,000 hours of airplane and helicopter flight time.  He retired from the FBI in June, 2008.

 

Following his ‘retirement,’ Steve spent two years as the Deputy Director for Public Safety at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and their six overseas campuses. Moore developed and implemented security plans and procedures to ensure the safety of students and its campuses in Heidelberg, Germany; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lausanne, Switzerland; Florence, Italy; London, England and Shanghai, China. Steve also managed and trained an armed ‘Active-Shooter’ team to interdict potential school shootings on the Malibu campus.

 

Steve formed "Moore Investigations International" in 2010, devoted to the safety and release of Americans wrongly held by governments and others overseas. He became intimately involved in the imprisonment and subsequent release and exoneration of Amanda Knox, a University of Washington student held for four years on false murder charges by a rogue Italian prosecutor. Moore also investigated the case and assisted in obtaining the release of Jacob Ostreicher, an American wrongly held in Bolivia on trumped up charges by the Evo Morales regime. Moore testified twice before congress on the matter and his report to congress was submitted to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights.

 

Moore is the author and co-author of several books, including "Special Agent Man," (Chicago Press Review, 2012) and "The Forgotten Killer," (Amazon Press, 2014), with Doug Preston, John Douglas, Mark Olshaker, Judge Michael Heavey, Tom Wright and Jim Lovering. ("The Forgotten Killer" remains #1 on both Amazon and Kindle's list of best sellers in the International Law category.)