Behind The Shield

Jay Dobyns (Under cover, Infiltrating the Hell's Angels and Betrayal - Episode 194

03.16.2024 - By Behind The Shield PodcastPlay

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Jay Dobyns is a retired 27 year veteran of the ATF agent who spent two years undercover infiltrating the Hell's Angels. We discuss his early life, courage, bullies, the price of service, the Columbine massacre, slapdicks, organizational failure and much more. Jay Dobyns is a retired federal agent having served for twenty-seven years at ATF.He achieved worldwide notoriety as one of history's most daring undercover operators during high-octane missions targeting America's violent crime while playing a shrewdly-calculating hitman, mob debt collector, and gunrunner. He is best known for his landmark infiltration of the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle gang.Jay has been featured in over a dozen film and television shows and is the author of two best-selling books, No Angel, My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels, and, Catching Hell, A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal. A criminal defense attorney once described Jay as: "...a government-trained ‘Predator’ repeatedly sent on seek and destroy missions in search of drugs, guns, and violence with instructions to succeed at any cost without regard for the agent himself or those he crosses paths with.”Jay was an All-Pac 10 wide receiver and All-American candidate at the University of Arizona, coached high school football coach for 15 years, and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona.                                                                  

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