Bogdan Dzakovic served as a leader for the FAA’s Red Team, which conducts mock raids on airports in order to determine if airlines are equipped to thwart hijackers. Breaching security with ease (a 90% rate), Red Team members repeatedly warned that America’s airports were vulnerable, including Boston’s Logan Airport used by hijackers a few months later on 9/11. The FAA ordered the Red Team not to write up its reports, not to retest to check if security breaches had been fixed, and proceeded to forewarn airlines when the Red Team was planning to test security. After 9/11, Dzakovic blew the whistle on this abuse of secrecy.
