Episode #005 – Welcome Special Agent Rafael Barros, Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge (ATSAIC) of the Talent and Acquisition Division (TAD) under the Office of Human Resources for the U.S. Secret Service. Joining him is retired Special Agent Tony Chapa. Tony retired as the Assistant Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) after being the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of the Los Angeles Field Office.During the Civil War, one-third of the currency in circulation was counterfeit. In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service under the Treasury Department to suppress the counterfeit and stop counterfeiters. Today the Secret Service has a dual mission of safeguarding the financial and critical infrastructure of the United States and protecting the nation’s leaders. The two core missions of investigations and protection synergize with each other. Combating counterfeit has always been the cornerstone of this elite law enforcement agency, one thing that stands the test of time is taking down counterfeiters.Know Your Money Education on genuine U.S. Currency and Federal Reserve Notes https://www.secretservice.gov/data/KnowYourMoney.pdf or please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T94oYqwARX8 to watch the Know Your Money video or please go to www.uscurrency.govIf you would like more information, please contact your local Secret Service field office at www.secretservice.gov Special Thanks to SA Rafael Barros and retired SA Tony Chapa for their time and support. Special thanks to FSD for their time and support. Special thanks to the executive leadership of the Secret Service and the Office of Communication and Media Relations for their continued time and help of this podcast.Hosted and Edited by Cody Starken, Associate Producer and assistant editor: Starr VazquezThe United States Secret Service sponsors this episode. www.secretservice.govMusic is “Nova Police” by Hermelin, found here: www.hermelin.bandcamp.com/track/nova-policeThe music used in the podcast was altered from the original soundtrack by cutting specific sections of the music to create the intro and outro of the podcast. This work Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US), which license definition is located here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0Want to join the Secret Service? Click here to start your journey https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=USSSPlease visit us at: Twitter @secretservice, Instagram @secretservice, Facebook @UnitedStatesSecretServiceOfficial, YouTube @US Secret Service, and LinkedIn @U.S. Secret ServiceSubscribe to the podcast at Apple podcasts, Google Podcasts, or SoundCloud.com and find it at www.secretservice.gov/press/social-media/