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Boston Globe
By Wendy Killeen

Globe Correspondent / November 27, 2008

INSIDE THE FBI: Tanya S. DeGenova of Marblehead, a retired special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presents "My First 48-Hour Day in the FBI" at Northern Essex Community College in Lawrence on Wednesday.

DeGenova (inset) became an FBI agent in 1979 and was assigned to the Washington, D.C., field office, juggling the job along with being a wife, mother, and graduate student.

On March 30, 1981, she went to work thinking it would be an ordinary day in an extraordinary job. But that day, in downtown Washington, John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan."I was ordered to respond to the George Washington Hospital that afternoon, where President Reagan was treated for gunshot wounds, and I didn't come home for 48 hours," said DeGenova. "That was the beginning of my extraordinary career."

DeGenova, who has a master's degree in international relations from Georgetown University, served the FBI as an interpreter, special agent, and supervisory special agent.

She is now CEO and president of TSD Security Consulting in Boston, and is a licensed private detective.

The talk, which is part of the college's White Fund lecture series, begins at noon in the Louise Haffner Fournier Education Center. The program is free. Call 978-738-7403.

 

The September 2008 issue of Intellenet
www.intelnetwork.org/members/newsletters/intellenetnews0908.pdf

Know Your Fellow Member

Tanya S. DeGenova, CPP
TSD Security Consulting Group, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts

Tanya S. DeGenova, CPP is the President of TSD
Security Consulting Group, Inc. in Boston and a
retired career FBI Agent with thirty-four years
combined experience in investigations and
management.

Tanya S. DeGenova grew up in Casablanca,
Morocco until the age of 13 in a multi-cultural
family and is fluent in French, Russian, German
and English. She holds a B.A. from Syracuse
University and a M.A. in International Relations
from Georgetown University.


During her tenure with the FBI, (1974-1999) Ms.
DeGenova worked on a wide range of criminal and
national security investigations in Washington,
D.C., Miami, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Las Vegas
before being promoted to FBI headquarters in

1992, where she spent four years as a Program
Manager in the National Security Division.
In November 1996, Ms. DeGenova was promoted
to Boston as a Supervisory Special Agent, where
for the next three years she supervised two squads
and several investigative programs to include
counterterrorism, foreign counterintelligence, civil
rights, police training, community outreach,
security programs and countermeasures and
applicant recruitment.

Since she retired from the FBI in 1999 and founded
TSD Security Consulting Group, Inc, an
investigative and security consulting firm, she
consulted to several US government agencies both
Germany and in Washington, D.C. and conducted a
top to bottom review of the Mass. Crime Lab and
Medical Examiner’s Office in 2007 for the Executive
Office of Public Safety. On the investigative side,
her firm specializes in pre-employment background
investigations and corporate due diligence and
litigation support worldwide for US based clients.
(www.tsdconsulting.com)

From 2003-2005 Ms. DeGenova worked as a US
Red Cross volunteer at the Landstuhl US Army
Hospital in Germany and is currently a member of
the North Shore Hospice Russian Advisory
Committee. Ms. DeGenova is an active member of
the Marblehead Rotary Club International, CII,
Intellenet and ASIS where she holds a title of CPP
since September 2006.

Trickery

A police officer was staking out a particularly rowdy
bar for possible DUI violations. At closing time, he
saw a man stumble out of the bar, trip on the curb
and try his keys on five different cars before he
found his. The man sat in the front seat fumbling
around with his keys for several minutes.
Meanwhile, all the other patrons left the bar and
drove off. Finally the man started his engine and
began to pull away. The police officer was waiting
for him. As soon as he pulled onto the street, the
officer stopped him, read him his rights and
administered the breathalyzer test to determine his
blood-alcohol content.

'You can be what you want to be'
An exotic global background, an amazing American journey

Salem Evening News,
Published June 25, 2008 By Alan Burke Staff writer

MARBLEHEAD — Tanya DeGenova wants nothing more than to be thought of as an American.
"In America, you can be what you want to be," says the German-born director of TSD Security Consulting Group in Boston. "I became a citizen when I was 18 years old. As soon as I could."
And everything she's done here, everything she has achieved, everything she believes "feeds into one thing — that this is who I am — an American."
So, it's not surprising that the former federal agent involved herself in electoral politics, recently opening her Marblehead home to a reception for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Beatty, who is running against Sen. John Kerry. Last year, DeGenova, undertook her own, ultimately unsuccessful, campaign for state representative.
Support for Beatty is only natural. A former FBI agent, he worked with her late husband, Ben DeGenova, on the bureau hostage-rescue team.
"I find Jeff to be of high integrity," she says. "He's also a retired (Army) Delta Force major and a man of his word."
Though DeGenova considers herself a typical American, her background is anything but typical.
One of the first female FBI agents, she worked undercover against drug dealers and Soviet spies, and even investigated the attempted assassination of President Reagan.
The daughter of a French mother and a Russian father, she says she is probably descended from royalty. In a family displaced by revolution, she spent her early years in Casablanca. Tanya Ismestieff's mother died when Tanya was 10 months old. Her grandfather, a Mobil Oil executive, helped provide a home for the family in French North Africa.
It all sounds very exotic, but DeGenova has little use for the past.
"I was not aware of the Humphrey Bogart movie when I was growing up," she says. Even today, while her sisters are busily tracing the Ismestieff family's royal roots — they think the siblings might be baronesses — Tanya has little interest.
"I was happy to find a home here," she says with a slight European accent, "and to be able to consolidate all my roots into one." She started attending a Roman Catholic church because it seemed more American than Russian Orthodox.
Her family came to the United States in 1965, settling in Syracuse, N.Y., where she attended that city's famous university. Later, she earned a master's in foreign relations from Georgetown.
Linguistical ability brought DeGenova to the FBI in the 1970s. A Russian translator (she also speaks French, German, Haitian Creole and some Arabic), she was charged with listening in on wiretaps of suspected KGB agents, debriefing and "baby-sitting" defectors. The assignment came easily to a woman whose father was a committed anti-communist.

"Counterintelligence — it's a gentleman's game," DeGenova said. "Nobody killed me." However, there were few gentlemen among the gangsters she spied on.
She retains photos of her targets, in handcuffs, marched off to jail.
In March 1981, DeGenova responded to the shooting of President Reagan. By chance, she was passing the hospital as the stricken president was admitted. She and a fellow agent took custody of his bloodied shirt and jacket.
"My job was to interview any potential witnesses. I didn't get home for 48 hours," she said.

She grilled people like ABC News reporter Sam Donaldson and a barber who watched shooter John Hinckley Jr. tarry in his shop.
"Do you want a haircut?" he asked. Hinckley gave no answer, but moved across the street where Reagan was due to appear.
"Thank God Hinckley was a bad shot," DeGenova said. The bullet that lodged between the president's heart and lung ricocheted off the president's limousine. An explosive round, it failed to explode.
Hinckley was found insane and institutionalized. When Reagan recovered, DeGenova was regularly invited to the White House Christmas party. The president greeted her.
"He had a very powerful, deep look," she said. She compares it to a meeting years later with Reagan's Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev.
That happened when Gorbachev visited Swampscott in 2000.
"I didn't feel the same power," DeGenova says.
"Oh, my God," Gorbachev told her, "you speak Russian so well."
"My great-grandfather was a general in the czar's army," she replied.
Reagan inspired her journey toward the Republican Party. In Virginia, she worked for Sen. John Warner and Marshall Coleman, who narrowly lost a governor's race to Democrat Douglas Wilder.
As an agent, she arrested American-turned-Israeli-spy Jonathan Pollard in 1985.
Toward the end of her FBI career, DeGenova was assigned to the Boston office. She saw little of the turmoil created by agents using mobster James "Whitey" Bulger as an informant.
"But it was a very hard culture," she said. "I would come home crying sometimes. It was a very stressful situation."
The move also began a new love affair — with Marblehead.
DeGenova married twice, both times to FBI agents. The first marriage ended in divorce. She speaks wistfully of second husband Ben DeGenova.
"Even the FBI didn't have enough action for him," she said.
She has a daughter from each marriage, the youngest of whom graduated from Marblehead High School. Here, DeGenova's Russian roots finally re-emerged. She named them Alexandra and Anastasia.
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