Mark Holstlaw

Background

About Mark Holstlaw

Retired FBI Special Agent with nearly 35 years of investigative, supervisory, intelligence and security experience for the United States military and FBI. FBI intelligence squad supervisor of 25 personnel, to include special agents, analytic support and foreign linguists; adjunct faculty member for human intelligence and source development at the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA. A Department of Justice-certified counterintelligence agent, hostage negotiator, crisis manager, undercover agent, police instructor and covert surveillance operator for the FBI. Personally worked on some of the biggest terrorism cases in US history - the Oklahoma City bombing; the first World Trade Center bombing; and the terror attacks of 9/11; was the lead Federal investigator and FBI case agent for the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado – at the time, the largest criminal investigation in the state’s history; one of the primary hostage negotiators during the nationally publicized "Texas Seven" nationwide fugitive manhunt and apprehensions in January, 2001. A US Army veteran with extensive operational intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative and security experience. Served as an Intelligence commander during the first Gulf War. Currently pursuing a rewarding career in private industry as an analyst/investigator in the Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) fields.