By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — Sean Joyce, a Boston native, is the new assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division. He replaces Tom Fuentes, who retired.
“The International Operations Division’s scope of responsibilities is greater than ever, given the importance that relationships with international law enforcement partners and other parts of the government hold to our overall national security mission,” said FBI Director Robert Mueller III in a statement. “Sean’s knowledge and his experience in criminal and national security matters make him an excellent fit for the job.”
Joyce joined the FBI in 1987 and initially went to the Dallas Division, where he investigated violent crimes. He then went on to focus on Colombian drug trafficking in the Miami Division, the FBI said.
He returned to Dallas in 1998 as a SWAT team leader and named the supervisory senior resident agent for the Fort Worth office in 2002, with responsibility for its counterterrorism squad.
In 2005, he was named the legal legal attaché to Prague and two years later came to the Washington Field Office as an assistant special agent in charge.
IN 2008, he was named section chief of the Counterterrorism Division’s International Terrorism Operations Section, with responsibility for international terrorism matters within the United States, the FBI said.
In February 2009, he became deputy assistant director of the International Operations Division.
