For Immediate Release
April
19, 2007
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
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WEYSAN
DUN NAMED SAC IN NEWARK
Washington,
D.C. - Director Robert S. Mueller, III has named Weysan
Dun Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Newark Division
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Dun was most
recently SAC of the Springfield Division.
Mr.
Dun began his career as an FBI Special Agent in 1982. He
served in the San Francisco, Omaha, and Chicago Divisions,
where he specialized in national security matters, high
technology theft investigations, violent crimes, terrorism,
and extremist matters. While in Omaha, Mr. Dun directed
and conducted a domestic terrorism investigation that resulted
in the dismantling of an extremist organization in southeastern
Nebraska in 1985.
In
1988, Mr. Dun was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent
of the National Security Division at FBI Headquarters in
Washington, D.C. He also served as an Assistant Inspector
in the Inspection Division. In 1991, Mr. Dun became a Supervisory
Senior Resident Agent in the Hartford, CT Resident Agency,
where he directed several Violent Crimes Gang Task Forces
that helped dismantle a number of violent street gangs in
Connecticut. Mr. Dun also led numerous Organized Crime Drug
Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigations targeting
major drug trafficking groups in New England.
Mr.
Dun returned to FBI Headquarters in 1997, where he directed
the creation of the Program Management and Coordination
Unit in the Organized Crime/Drug Investigations Branch of
the Criminal Investigative Division. Mr. Dun served as chief
of this unit until he was designated Assistant Special Agent
in Charge of the Omaha Division in July 1998. In Omaha,
Mr. Dun directed a number of significant drug, violent crime,
domestic terrorism, and cyber crime investigations, and
the implementation of the Nebraska/Iowa Joint Terrorism
Task Force. In July 2002, he was promoted to Inspector in
the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters, where he served
until July 2003, when he was designated SAC of the Springfield
Division.
Mr.
Dun is native of Kirksville, Missouri. He earned a Bachelor
of Arts Degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He served in the United States Army, Military Intelligence
Branch, where he attained the rank of Captain and was awarded
the Meritorious Service Medal.
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