FBI Promotes Eric Velez-Villar to Executive Assistant Director of Bureau’s Intelligence Branch

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…

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FBI Appoints New Chief of Intelligence Division

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…

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