  We present preliminary results from the first 3 months of the Swift BAT high
galactic latitude survey in the 14--195 keV band. The survey reaches a flux of
\~10^{-11} erg/cm^2/s and has ~2.7' (90% confidence) positional uncertainties
for the faintest sources. This represents the most sensitive survey to date in
this energy band. These data confirm the conjectures that a high energy
selected AGN sample would have very different properties from those selected in
other bands and represent a `true' sample of the AGN population. We have
identified 86% of the 66 high-latitude sources. 12 are galactic type sources
and 44 can be identified with previously known AGN. All but 5 of the AGN have
archival X-ray spectra, enabling the estimation of line of sight column
densities and other spectral properties. Both of the z > 0.11 objects are
Blazars. The median redshift of the others (excluding radio-loud objects) is
0.012. We find that the column density distribution of these AGN is bimodal
with 64% of the non-blazar sources having column densities N_H >= 10^{22}
cm$^{-2}$. None of the sources with log L_X > 43.5 show high column densities
and very few of the lower L_X sources have low column densities. Based on these
data, we expect the final BAT catalog to have >200 AGN and reach fluxes of less
than ~10^{-11} erg/cm^2/s over the entire sky.
