By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s number two person Timothy P. Murphy is stepping down to take a position in the private sector, the FBI announced Wednesday. Sean Joyce, the Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch, will replace him as the deputy director. “Tim Murphy has earned the respect and admiration of his…
By Milton J. Valencia Globe Staff BOSTON –In a move timed to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI’s Boston bureau and the Massachusetts Port Authority announced yesterday the opening of a self-contained “nerve center’’ for a counterterrorism task force based at Logan International Airport. It is the first center of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Timothy J. Delaney is heading off to Los Angeles to be the special agent in charge of the Criminal Division. Delaney, who joined the FBI in 1991, most recently served as section chief for the New Agent’s Training Program Section in the FBI’s Training Division. After joining the FBI, he…
Edward P. Gibson was an FBI special agent from 1985 to 2005. He was in the U.S. Army from 1971-74 and a lawyer in the U.S. for a major corporation 1980-1985 and Chief cyber Security Advisor – Microsoft Ltd – UK from 2005 to 2009. He wrote this in response to a column by ticklethewire.com…
Bernard La Forest retired from ATF after heading up its offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles. His column is in response to a column by ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel supporting an ATF regulation that requires gun dealers in states bordering Mexico to report multiple sales of assault weapons. By Bernarld La…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man has copted a plea to trying to spy for Israel. Elliot Doxer, 43, an employee of a high-tech company, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Boston federal court to foreign economic espionage for providing trade secrets over an 18-month period to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who the heck is William G. Hillar? Well, if you read his online bio you’d see that he had some darn impressive credentials in the military, had a Ph.d and he’s been raking in cash teaching, conducting workshops and giving speeches, and that he received training in counter-terrorism and psychological warfare…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It looks like it’s strike three for the ex-payroll manager for the San Francisco Giants. The feds have charged Robin O’Connor, 41, of the San Francisco Bay area, with embezzling more than $1.5 million from the club’s employees, including players and buying fancy cars and a new home, the Associated Press…
