Diego G. Rodriguez Named Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office
Diego G. Rodriguez, who headed up the FBI’s Dallas office, has been named the assistant director in charge (ADIC) of the FBI’s New York Field Office.
Rodriguez succeeds George Venizelos, who is retiring after 24 years in the FBI, the agency said.
Rodriguez joined the FBI in 1990 at the New York Field Office and was a member of the SWAT team and the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force.
In 1997, he headed to San Juan Division, where he was a SWAT team member. He was also assigned to a drug/money laundering task force with the Puerto Rico Police Department.
In 1999, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters.
In 2001, he transferred to the Miami Division, where he supervised a multi-agency drug squad under the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Initiative.
Rodriguez returned to FBI headquarters in 2003 as chief of the Field Oversight Unit in the Directorate of Intelligence.
Shortly after, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office in April 2006 as the criminal, counterterrorism, and intelligence program manager, according to a press release.
He was then promoted to chief of the Domain and Collection Management Section in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBI Headquarters.
In July 2010, he was named a special agent in charge in New York where he oversaw the Criminal Division. In June 2012, he headed up the Dallas Division.
Before his FBI career, Mr. Rodriguez was a teacher in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1988 from St. John’s University in New York.
Posted: December 16th, 2014 under Milestone, News Story.
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