The coronavirus outbreak that is rapidly sweeping across American, claiming lives and wrecking the economy, should have been no surprise to the Trump administration because of warnings about the contagion as far back as November.
Jane Burrell became the first CIA officer to die while working for the agency when the plane in which she was riding – an Air France DC-3 – crashed while it was approaching the Le Bourget airport near Paris on Jan. 6, 1948.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Gerald Roberts, Jr. has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Intelligence Division at the Washington Field Office and Timothy Gallagher will head up the Newark office, the FBI announced. Roberts most recently served as the section chief of the Terrorist Financing Operations Section in the Counterterrorism Division at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joshua Skule has been named assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence at FBI Headquarters, moving just blocks from where he has been serving as special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division at the Washington Field Office. He assumes his new post in January. Skule began his career as an…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rafael “Jorge” Garcia, Jr. has been named assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) at FBI headquarters. Garcia most recently served as deputy assistant director for the Intelligence Operations Branch within the DI. Garcia joined the FBI in 1995 and was first assigned to the Phoenix office he investigated drugs,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Harold H. Shaw has been named special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division at the New York Field Office. Since April 2013, he has served as a section chief and deputy director for law enforcement at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center (CTC) as a liaison between the FBI and the CIA,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, who heads up ATF’s St. Paul, Minn., office is moving up the chain. He”ll be taking over the job as Deputy Assistant Director for ATF’s Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information (OSII). His new responsibilities will include ATF’s partner engagement liaison with the intelligence community, overseeing ATF’s foreign operations…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who leaked information to the Associated Press was sentenced Thursday to about three-and-a-half years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information, the AP reports. Donald Sachteren, 55, was accused of disclosing intelligence about the U.S. operation in Yemen in 2012. The discovery prompted feds to seize phone…
