García worked as an undercover FBI special agent for 24 out of his 26 years of service without ever being discovered as an FBI agent. García worked on many of these cases simultaneously, as he juggled his various undercover identities and roles. García has also worked undercover against Russian and Asian organized crime groups. He has done undercover work on national and international terrorism cases as well as national security investigations. He has also worked undercover against hundreds of drug dealers and leaders of both Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, while posing as either a money launderer, transporter or trafficker. García worked undercover in successful cases against corrupt politicians in Atlantic City, New Jersey, corrupt police officers in the Hollywood Police Department, the Broward County Sheriff's Office, Boston Police Department and in the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. García applied for the FBI soon after graduation and was sworn in for duty as a special agent in May 1980. His large size (6'4", 390 lbs.) benefited both his football and later undercover careers. He received full football scholarships and played at West Texas State University, Westchester Community College and at the University of Richmond where he subsequently graduated in May 1975. He grew up in the Bronx, New York where he attended Mount Saint Michael Academy. His family fled to the United States to escape Fidel Castro's regime when he was nine years old. García is regarded as one of the most successful and prolific undercover agents in the history of the FBI. Joaquín "Jack" García (born 1952) is a Cuban-American retired FBI agent, best known for his undercover work infiltrating the Gambino crime family in New York City. Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family Infiltrating the Gambino crime family as an undercover FBI agent
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