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Volume 15
buildings with several classrooms.
Inside one of the classrooms, new agent trainees
are forming their squads for the morning when
they receive word that an “explosion” has oc-
curred in a nearby city.
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each other’s respective job roles and how that
plays out in the real world,” says Carrie Richard-
son-Zadra, a supervisory special agent with the
FBI’s Investigative and Intelligence Training Unit.
“That’s why we have them work together from
the moment they arrive at the academy.”
Over the previous few weeks, the squad has
been using the skills they’ve learned to investi-
gate a simulated hotel bombing and track down
the criminals responsible for the attack.
With this new report, trainees suspect that the
events could be linked to terrorist activity.
But before they can identify subjects, the squa