![]() ![]() There were all these Ned drop dropped all this information on me. But then you see the corner piece and the edge piece, the connect and you’re like, huh? And then and then you’re hooked. I say this on the podcast, but on an on vacation, when you’re kids empty, like 5000 pieces puzzle out on the floor, you think, like, you’ve got to be kidding me. And I kind of felt like it was reminding me. Jake Halpern, Author & Journalist I mean, it’s a great question. How do you go about verifying with the information you had? Marty Fischhoff, DPTV You know, you were a celebrated investigative journalist in Miami saying that we took all that skill and experience to be able to distinguish fact from fiction to what you’re being told. Is this story true? And how did it really go? And have traveled the world and talked to dozens of folks, basically fact checking and telling the true version of the story. And I went to meet Ned, and that started this year and a half long odyssey that I went on to try to figure out. But as you know, as a journalist, we can’t just take someone’s word for it. So I read the novel and I said, yeah, Jeff, this is this is a crazy tale, you know? This is mostly the secret reason that we invaded Panama because this FBI agent, you know went, undercover and the Detroit drug gangs and found out that Noriega was a dealer. He called and said, Jake, you got to read this. ![]() And he read it and thought that it would be could be a movie or a podcast or something. And somehow or another, Jeff managed to get a hold of this novel. And Ned had written a novel based very closely based on the true experience that he’d had as an undercover FBI agent. Jake Halpern, Author & Journalist Yeah, we have a mutual… Ned… And I had a mutual friend who’s a producer out in Hollywood named Jeff Singer. Marty Fischhoff, DPTV Can you tell us how you first came across Ned Timmins, the FBI agent in his crazy saga? Jake Halpern, Author & Journalist Hey, thanks for having me, Marty. ![]() What a plot Jake, welcome to One Detroit. It’s a network of bizarre characters in a story that ends up in President George H.W. It’s about a Detroit FBI agent who goes undercover in an outlaw motorcycle gang to investigate a twisted web of drug smugglers and drug dealers. It’s called “Deep Cover the Drug Wars” and it is quite a tale. Marty Fischhoff, DPTV Today One Detroit is talking to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best selling author Jake Halpern about his first podcast. Along the way, listeners get to meet an odd cast of characters, and ultimately find out how the twists and turns lead to the U.S. Detroit Public TV’s Marty Fischhoff interviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jake Halpern, about his first podcast, “ Deep Cover: The Drug Wars.”Ī Detroit FBI agent goes undercover in an outlaw motorcycle gang to investigate a twisted web of drug smugglers and drug dealers. ![]()
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