FBI names Christine O’Neill as Special Agent to Washington

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Christine O'Neill now special agent, Washington Field Office
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Admin l Friday, June 19, 2020

WASHINGTON, United States – Director Federal Bureau of  Investigation, FBI,  Christopher Wray has named Christine O’Neill as the special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division of the Washington Field Office.

Ms. O’Neill most recently served as a deputy assistant director in—and the acting assistant director of—the Security Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Ms. O’Neill joined the FBI as a special agent in 1999 and was assigned to the Meriden Resident Agency, a satellite office of the New Haven Field Office in Connecticut. She primarily investigated white-collar crime during her six years in Connecticut.

In 2005, O’Neil  was promoted to supervisory special agent and was assigned to the Counterterrorism Division. Ms. O’Neill worked in the Global Operations Unit and the Iraq Unit of the International Terrorism Operations Section II in McLean, Virginia. She also served as the FBI liaison to Iraq for several months in 2007.

Christine O’Neill was promoted in 2007 to supervisor of the Boston Field Office’s Health Care Fraud program, which she led for nearly seven years. In 2014, she was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of Boston’s Intelligence/Administrative Branch. She transferred to assistant special agent in charge of Boston’s White Collar Branch in 2016.

In 2017, Ms. O’Neill was promoted to chief of the Intelligence and Threat Analysis Section of the Security Division at Headquarters. She transitioned to chief of the Security Operations Section in 2018 and was promoted to deputy assistant director of the division’s Security Operations Branch I in 2019.

 As deputy assistant director, she was responsible for overseeing the background investigations and ongoing evaluations of individuals requiring a security clearance and access to FBI space or information.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. O’Neill worked in the investment sector. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bentley University.

Stacey Moy Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence Division of the Washington Field Office

Director Christopher Wray has named Stacey Moy as the special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence Division of the Washington Field Office. Mr. Moy most recently served as a deputy assistant director in the Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Moy joined the FBI as a special agent in 2004 and began investigating foreign counterintelligence and espionage cases in the Washington Field Office. He served as the case agent investigating penetrations of the U.S. Intelligence Community, media leaks, and economic espionage. He also served on the SWAT team.

Mr. Moy was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters in 2009, handling several major cases that involved the targeting and acquisition of U.S. trade secrets by foreign adversaries. In 2011, Mr. Moy was promoted to field supervisor of a counterproliferation squad in the Oakland Resident Agency of the San Francisco Field Office.

In 2014, he was promoted to unit chief of the Counterproliferation Center in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters. The center is charged with leading the FBI’s efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction and other technologies that threaten national security. Mr. Moy was promoted to assistant section chief of the center in 2015.

He moved to the San Francisco Field Office in 2016 as the assistant special agent in charge of the criminal branch in charge of investigating complex financial crimes, public corruption, civil rights, and violent crimes against children. He was named a Counterintelligence Division section chief in 2017 and promoted to deputy assistant director in 2019.

Before joining the FBI, Mr. Moy graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, serving in both the Surface Warfare and Naval Special Warfare communities. He earned a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College and was a senior executive fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government for Executive Education.

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