Richard Behar is an investigative journalist who has written on the staffs of leading magazines including Forbes, Time and Fortune over a twenty-two year period from 1982-2004. His work has also appeared on CNN and PBS. As of July, 2005, Behar coordinates Project Klebnikov, a global media alliance launched to investigate the murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov and related lines of inquiry. Since 2004, his freelance investigate stories have also appeared at BBC, Forbes.com and FoxNews.com. Investigative journalism is a branch of journalism that usually concentrates on a very specific topic, and typically requires a lot of work to yield results. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ... Fortune magazine is Americas second longest-running business magazine after Forbes magazine. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Paul Klebnikov Paul Klebnikov (June 3, 1963 – July 9, 2004) was an American journalist of Russian descent. ...

Education and career

Behar was raised on Long Island and is a 1982 graduate of New York University (NYU). Before joining Time in 1989, he was a reporter and associate editor for Forbes magazine for six years. He has also worked at the New York Times as a researcher and writer. Behar reported extensively about organized crime and the business backgrounds of politicians for Time, for whom Behar wrote a widely acclaimed 1993 cover story on the World Trade Center bombing. Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... It has been suggested that Criminal organization be merged into this article or section. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... WTC redirects here. ...

In 1991, he wrote "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", the Time cover story on Scientology.[1] The acclaimed article won several awards.^[1] The Church of Scientology brought several lawsuits over the article, all of which were eventually dismissed.^[1] While investigating the story, he experienced some of Scientology's Fair game tactics: 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power, Time Magazine, Richard Behar, 1991. ... Scientology is a system of beliefs and practices created by American pulp fiction[1][2] and science fiction [3] author L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 as a self-help philosophy. ... The Church of Scientology is the largest organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. ... Fair Game is a status assigned to those whom the Church of Scientology has officially declared to be Suppressive Persons or Suppressive Persons are those whose actions are deemed to suppress or damage Scientology or a Scientologist. ...

"I later learned, a copy of my personal credit report -- with detailed information about my bank accounts, home mortgage, credit-card payments, home address and Social Security number -- had been illegally retrieved from a national credit bureau called Trans Union. The sham company that received it, "Educational Funding Services" of Los Angeles, gave as its address a mail drop a few blocks from Scientology's headquarters. The owner of the mail drop is a private eye named Fred Wolfson, who admits that an Ingram associate retained him to retrieve credit reports on several individuals. Wolfson says he was told that Scientology's attorneys "had judgments against these people and were trying to collect on them." He says now, "These are vicious people. These are vipers." Ingram, through a lawyer, denies any involvement in the scam. ... After that, however, an attorney subpoenaed me, while another falsely suggested that I might own shares in a company I was reporting about that had been taken over by Scientologists (he also threatened to contact the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). A close friend in Los Angeles received a disturbing telephone call from a Scientology staff member seeking data about me -- an indication that the cult may have illegally obtained my personal phone records. Two detectives contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. Some of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias against Scientology." (Sidebar to [2])

A 2003 report by Behar in Fortune explored Donald Rumsfeld's role in helping North Korea build its potential Nuclear weapon capacity, in an article entitled "Rummy’s North Korea Connection: What Did Donald Rumsfeld Know About ABB’s Deal to Build Nuclear Reactors There? And Why Won’t He Talk About It?" TransUnion (full name Trans Union LLC) is one of the big three credit reporting agencies in the United States. ... A subpoena is a writ commanding a person to appear under penalty (from Latin). ... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, commonly referred to as the SEC, is the United States governing body which has primary responsibility for overseeing the regulation of the securities industry. ... An affidavit is a formal sworn statement of fact, signed by the declarant (who is called the affiant), and witnessed (as to the veracity of the affiants signature) by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld, (born July 9, 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975–1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001–2006. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... ABB, formerly Asea Brown Boveri, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the power and automation technology areas. ... Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ...

In October, 2004, Behar left Time, Inc. to pursue book writing and various independent projects, including the launch of Project Klebnikov, a global media alliance investigating the July, 2004, murder of Paul Klebnikov, who was then the editor-in-chief of Forbes Russia. Behar also serves on the advisory committee of NYU's business journalism masters program (BER).

Recognition

Behar was included among the 100 best business journalists (the "100 luminaries") of the 20th century by the TJFR business journalism trade group.

Columnist Jack Anderson once called Behar "one of the most dogged of our watchdogs." Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 – December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. ... A watchdog originally referred to a dogs job, but now has been used in additional contexts with the same implication of watching or safeguarding: For the dogs job, see guard dog. ...

Awards

Behar has won many awards for his reporting, including:

• The Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism,^[1]
• The 'Leo J. Ryan' award from the (original) Cult Awareness Network, 1992
• A 'Conscience in Media' award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors,^[1], 1992
• The 'Worth Bingham Prize',^[1], 1992.
• Behar won the 'George Polk' award for his 1995 story about the strong-arm tactics used by the Allstate Insurance Co. against its own employees.
• Behar won the 2001 'Business Journalist of the Year' award from the Corporation of London.
• The 'Daniel Pearl Award', post 9/11 journalism.
• The 'Overseas Press Club Award' for post 9/11 journalism in Pakistan
• The 'Jack Anderson Award' (twice) for 'Top Investigative Reporter of the Year'.
• In 1997, Fortune was awarded the 'National Magazine Award' for public interest for two articles written by Behar on organized crime's influence in the garbage-hauling industry.

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A quote

"What happens when bosses ignore memos from subordinates? The country is now learning the answer to that question in a most painful way. On July 10, 2001, an FBI agent in Phoenix wrote a memo raising serious concerns about Middle Eastern men attending U.S. flight schools. The memo never made its way up the chain of command, and no action was taken." -- Richard Behar (intro to Fortune story: "FBI's 'Phoenix' memo Unmasked") 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area    - City 1230. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Judge dismisses Church of Scientology's $416 million lawsuit against TIME Magazine", Business Wire, July 16, 1996. Retrieved on 2006-06-01.

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External links

• RichardBehar.com - Richard Behar's official home page
• ProjectKlebnikov.org - 'The global media alliance investigating the July 9th, 2004 murder of Paul Klebnikov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine'
• Independent-Media.tv - 'Rummy's North Korea Connection', Richard Behar (April 28, 2003)
• LermaNet.com - 'Leo Award Winner Richard Behar at CAN Conference 1992'
• LermaNet.com - 'Stalked by Allstate: Being an agent for the giant insurer can be tough-- even terrifying. An extraordinary war between a company and its own troops is only getting fiercer.' Richard Behar (1995)
• NewsBios.com - 'Richard Behar'
• Acceptance Speech, for Leo J. Ryan award
• "Fuzzy, but fervent", Forbes, November 18, 1985 - Richard Behar and Ralph King, Jr.,^[2] article about The Hunger Project and Werner Erhard.