FBI News Quiz - Recent Cases and News

FBI News Quiz
Snapshots of Recent Cases and News

08/07/06

Crime doesn’t take a summer vacation, so we’ve been plenty busy in recent weeks, working cases from across our spectrum of investigative priorities. Take our quiz to find out how closely you’ve been following our recent cases:

1. We arrested three people in early July in Atlanta for allegedly stealing trade secrets from a major U.S. corporation. What were these individuals trying to sell to the company’s arch rival?

A: A secret blend of herbs and spices for fried chicken
B: A sample of a highly confidential new soda product
C: The ingredients of a hamburger chain’s special sauce
D: The formula for chocolate that won’t melt
Answer

2: Our work also led to charges in Detroit last month in another plot to steal trade secrets. What high-tech process was at risk of being sold to Chinese competitors?

A: How to make impenetrable metal for body armor
B: How to build cars out of recycled computer parts
C: How to make “liquid metal”
D: How to make automotive parts from “powdered metal”
Answer

3. We shut down a vast child porn website last month, leading to several arrests and searches of homes and businesses around the world. How many U.S. states and countries were involved?

A: Five states and nine countries
B: Eight states and a dozen countries
C: 15 states and 14 countries
D: 20 states and 27 countries
Answer

4: Thanks to help from our international partners, we recently disrupted a terrorist network overseas that was in the planning stages of an attack on U.S. soil. What was the cell’s intended target?

A: The transportation system in New York-New Jersey
B: The port system in Los Angeles-Long Beach
C: The rail network in Chicago
D: Commercial barge traffic on the Mississippi River
Answer

5: We arrested three people in Miami last month in an undercover sting by our Art Crime Team. In all, we seized about 150 artifacts worth more than $2 million. What kind of objects were seized?

A: Ancient Persian
B: Ancient Egyptian
C: Etruscian
D: Pre-Columbian
Answer

6: As part of a major restructuring, we announced the establishment of a new directorate to consolidate investigations into what?

A: Weapons of mass destruction
B: Counterterrorism
C: Counterintelligence
D: All of the above
Answer

7: Four men and two women pled guilty last month to charges related to eco-terrorism and animal-rights crimes in Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington state, and California. What two domestic groups are they affiliated with?

A: SAFE and SOUND
B: ELF and ALF
C: FOX and the HEN
Answer

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Question 1: B, a highly confidential new soda product. An executive administrative assistant at Coca Cola stole the sample and some detailed plans about the product and passed them off to an accomplice. That individual contacted Pepsi and tried to sell it “detailed and confidential information” about Coke products. Instead, Pepsi did the right thing and called the FBI…and we set up a sting that nabbed the two individuals and a third accomplice.

Question 2: D, the process for making auto parts out of powdered metal. In that case, a high-ranking sales executive of an auto parts manufacturer set up a new company to help Chinese businesses compete with her former employer. She got help from a former metallurgist at the company and her husband, a senior engineer who was still working there and used his position to secretly steal confidential information.

Question 3: The operation to shut down the namgla.net website was part of our Innocent Images National Initiative against child pornography. The site advertised and provided direct links to child-pornography websites. The investigating team included agents and task force officers in 20 states and led to subjects being identified in 27 foreign countries. The answer is D.

Question 4: A, the transportation system in the New York-New Jerseyarea. A major break in the case was the arrest of a key suspect by Lebanese authorities. The case was worked by our New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, with the help of law enforcement and intelligence partners overseas. Read more.

Question 5: We recovered 150 Pre-Columbian artifacts that had been smuggled into the U.S., so the answer is D. The art in the case was estimated to be 5,000 years old and originated in Ecuador.

Question 6: Among the changes announced by Director Robert Mueller was the creation of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (Answer A). Heading this new directorate is Dr. Vahid Majidi, who led nuclear weapons research and counter-proliferation programs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Read more.

Question 7: Late last month, six defendants pled guilty to arson and other crimes they committed in the name of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front—or ELF and ALF (Answer B). They attacked farms, power lines, auto dealers, a forest ranger station, and a university police safety station. Read more about the guilty pleas in press releases of July 20 and July 21.