‘Just find the truth’

For 25 years, Marty Gallagher tracked down kidnappers, investigated government fraud and foreign counterintelligence, and in one case even helped send a young military contractor to prison for espionage.

After retiring from his post as a Los Angeles-based FBI agent in 1988, he spent time in the private sector, overseeing the ethics program for Hughes Aircraft Corp.’s legal department and consulting for LA’s public schools.

Then, in the 2000s, he discovered a new calling that asked for his talents and experience: helping the Catholic Church investigate allegations of clerical sexual abuse, part of a crisis that was then shaking the institution to its core.

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