
Eric Velez-Villar Named Assistant Director of Office of Private Sector at FBI Headquarters
Retired Special Agent Eric Velez-Villar has been named assistant director of the Office of Private Sector at FBI headquarters.
Retired Special Agent Eric Velez-Villar has been named assistant director of the Office of Private Sector at FBI headquarters.
Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com Eric Velez-Villar, a 29-year FBI veteran who has fought organized crime, terrorism and drugs, has been promoted to executive assistant director of the bureau’s intelligence branch, the bureau announced. Velez-Villar most recently served as assistant for the intelligence directorate. Velez-Villar joined the FBI in 1985 and began working on organized crime and…
By Jon Perkins ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Eric Velez-Villar, deputy assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence Operations Branch at FBI Headquarters, is getting a bump up to assistant director of that division, the FBI announced this week. In testimony last month before the House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee on counterterrorism intelligence, Velez-Villar pledged the FBI’s cooperation with state…