Director Robert S. Mueller, III has
named Gary Douglas Perdue special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh
Division. Mr. Perdue most recently served as chief of the Counterproliferation
Center in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate at FBI Headquarters in
Washington, D.C.
Mr. Perdue began his career with the FBI
as a contract language specialist in 1985. He became a special agent in 1989
and reported to the Detroit Division. While there, he received several
commendations for his various roles in significant counterterrorism and
counter-narcotics investigations.
In 1996, Mr. Perdue was assigned to the
International Terrorism Operations Section at FBI Headquarters as a program
manager and later as chief of the Radical Fundamentalists Unit. He led
responses to the 1998 East Africa bombings, the 1999 Egypt Air investigation,
as well as multiple domestic and international terrorism investigations.
Mr. Perdue was promoted to international
terrorism program coordinator and squad supervisor of a Joint Terrorism Task
Force (JTTF) in the Baltimore Division in 2001. He managed Baltimore’s response
to the September 11, 2001 attacks and assisted in initiating Baltimore’s first
JTTF and multi-agency fusion center. During this time, Mr. Perdue also served
as the FBI’s on-scene commander at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In 2006, Mr. Perdue was promoted to
assistant special agent in charge of the Counterterrorism Branch in the
Washington Field Office. In this role, he had executive management oversight of
squads that focused on domestic terrorism and weapons of mass destruction
investigations, Joint Terrorism Task Force operations, and extraterritorial
investigations in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
In 2008, Mr. Perdue was promoted to
chief of the Investigations and Operations Section in the Weapons of Mass
Destruction Directorate and, in 2009, he became the chief to the
Countermeasures and Preparedness Section.
In February 2012, Mr. Perdue was
selected to be chief of the FBI’s Counterproliferation Center, which combines
the resources of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate,
Counterintelligence Division, and the Directorate of Intelligence to detect, deter,
and defeat the threat posed by state-sponsored groups to obtain weapons of mass
destruction and sensitive technologies.
Mr. Perdue received a degree in
government and politics and economics in 1988 from the University of Maryland
and a Master of Science in national security strategy from the National Defense
University’s National War College in 2008.
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