By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — FBI agent Robert Anderson, Jr. is leaving headquarters to take on the job as special agent in charge of Intelligence Division for the Washington field office, the agency announced Thursday.
Anderson has been the chief of the Counterespionage Section in the Counterintelligence Division at FBI headquarters.
Anderson started his career 1995 and was first posted to the Washington field office, where he investigated narcotics and violent crimes, the FBI said.
In 1997, he transferred to the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), and served as an assaulter and ran the HRT international medical program. During his run in that unit, he was deployed to more than 20 countries and war zones, including Kosovo, Macedonia, Georgia, Pakistan, and Yemen, the FBI said.
In 2001, he was named to a supervisory position in the Counterintelligence Division at headquarters, and coordinated several major espionage cases involving the Department of Engery’s nuclear weapons laboratories, the FBI said.
In 2003, he was promoted to unit chief in the Counterintelligence Division and the following year he was named supervisor of the Global Foreign Counterintelligence Squad at the Washington field office.
In 2005, he was assigned to one of the local Washington’s major overseas espionage squads. Two years later, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge for field office’s Counterespionage Branch.
In 2008, he was promoted to chief of the Counterespionage Section in the Counterintelligence Division at headquarters.
