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my door. (no cellphones) stating that the FBI had a
cancellation in a New Agent class starting the next
Monday and wanting to know if I was available. Bottom
line: I started New Agent training 11/17/69. New Agent
training is about 6 months and after graduation I was
assigned to the Norfolk VA field office. At that time a
new agent would work in a small office and then be
transferred to one of the 12 large field offices until
they, in theory, could request a transfer to an “Office
of Preference” which was not normally a large office.
My large office was Philadelphia which in the general
scheme of things was not too bad since my parents
were living outside Boston. I remained in Philadelphia
until 1987. While in Phila I worked general criminal
matters and because of my MC background became
involved with the FBI SWAT program which at that
time was in its infancy. In 1970 my second son Gregory
was born. I stayed with the SWAT program becoming
the Senior SWAT team leader until leaving Phila in
1987. While in Phila my wife and I separated and then
divorced in 1983. In 1986 I was remarried to my
current wife Linda, The next move was an Office of
Preference transfer to the Atlantic City Resident
Agency of the FBI. This assignment did not last long
since my wife who was also an FBI Agent with a
Master’s Degree in Microbiology was summarily
transferred to the newly-formed DNA Unit at FBI HQ in
WDC. In the warm sensitive way of the FBI I was given
the” opportunity” to ask for a transfer to the WDC
“Area”. I requested a transfer to the Baltimore office
but was instead transferred to the Washington Field
Office (less desirable). We were not happy about this
“opportunity” but were not really given any choice.
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Deciding to make the best of our unhappy situation,
since we both wanted to live on the water, we
purchased an acre of land on Kent Island, located
across the Chesapeake from Annapolis MD and built a
house that was completed in 1989, where we live today.
After moving to MD we both made the daily 56 mile
drive to WDC.
My Current Life: I did this (commute) for 5 years and
retired from the FBI after 25 years. Linda managed to
escape from the lab and WDC about the same time as
was assigned to the Baltimore Office until her
retirement in 1994. In 1998 we traveled to China to
adopt our daughter Julia who is now getting ready to
graduate from the University of Delaware. Since
retirement I have been running a small investigative
agency, which keeps me busy and generally out of
trouble.
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