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FBI announces leadership changes in Washington

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FBI announces leadership changes

Admin l Tuesday, August 31, 2021

WASHINGTON – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced leadership changes at its headquarters in Washington. In a statement, FBI Director Christopher Wray  said four new special agents were named  in charge at the Washington Field Office, while a fifth person was shifted to a different SAC position.

The officers affected in the changes are as follows: Michael H. Glasheen, SAC, Counterterrorism Division

Mr. Glasheen joined the FBI as a special agent in 2001 and was assigned to the Chicago Field Office to investigate international terrorism matters. He moved in 2011 to the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington as a supervisory special agent.

In 2014, Mr. Glasheen transferred to the Seattle Field Office, where he first led the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force then served as the assistant special agent in charge of Seattle’s Counterterrorism Division. He returned to FBI Headquarters as a section chief in the Counterterrorism Division in 2019.

Mr. Glasheen earned a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree from Gonzaga University. Prior to joining the FBI, he served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Jeffrey L. Cannon, SAC, Mission Services Division

Mr. Cannon joined the FBI as a special agent in 1999. He served on the Organized Crime/Drug Task Force and then the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the Phoenix Field Office before his promotion to the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters in 2005. In 2007, he was promoted to unit chief in the International Operations Division and was named the assistant legal attaché in Athens in 2009.

Two years later he took charge of the violent crime program in Phoenix, and, in 2014, was appointed an assistant special agent in charge in the San Diego Field Office. Mr. Cannon was promoted to section chief in the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters in 2016. In 2020, he was named a deputy assistant director of the Security Division at Headquarters.

Mr. Cannon earned a bachelor’s degree from Mount St. Mary’s University. Prior to joining the FBI, he worked at one of the Big Four accounting firms.

Wayne A. Jacobs, SAC, Criminal/Cyber Division

Mr. Jacobs joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003 and was assigned to the New York Field Office to work government and financial fraud and, later, violent crimes and gangs. He was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2014 and transferred to the Criminal Investigative Division at Headquarters. In 2016, he was named a violent gangs task force squad supervisor in the Los Angeles Field Office. He was named the assistant special agent in charge of the Mission Support Branch of the Newark Field Office in 2018, and in 2020 was promoted to a section chief in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters.

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Mr. Jacobs earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree from Columbia University. Before he joined the FBI, he was a trading systems analyst.

Anthony T. Riedlinger, SAC, Counterintelligence Division

Mr. Riedlinger joined the FBI as a special agent in 1996 and was assigned to the Merrillville Resident Agency of the Indianapolis Field Office to investigate violent crime and public corruption. He worked a temporary assignment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was named the assistant legal attaché in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2006.

He moved to the Criminal Investigative Division at Headquarters in 2009 and was promoted to unit chief in the International Operations Division in 2012. He moved to the Louisville Field Office in Kentucky in 2013 and worked violent crimes against children. In 2016, he was selected as an assistant special agent in charge for the Chicago Field Office and as a section chief for the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters in 2018.

Mr. Riedlinger earned a bachelor’s degree from Millikin University. Before joining the FBI, he was a public accountant and police officer in Bloomington, Illinois.

Stacey Moy, SAC, Intelligence and Incident Response Division

Mr. Moy joined the FBI as a special agent in 2004 and investigated foreign counterintelligence and espionage cases in the Washington Field Office, where he was also a SWAT operator. He was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters in 2009, the first of several assignments there.

He transferred in 2011 to supervise a counterproliferation squad in the Oakland Resident Agency of the San Francisco Field Office, and returned to the Counterintelligence Division at Headquarters as a unit chief in 2014; he was later an assistant section chief. He moved to the San Francisco office as an assistant special agent in charge in 2016 for criminal programs, including financial crimes, public corruption, civil rights, and crimes against children.

He returned to the Counterintelligence Division as section chief in 2017 and was promoted to deputy assistant director in 2019. Mr. Moy was appointed SAC of the Counterintelligence Division at the Washington Field Office in 2020.

Mr. Moy graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a Navy officer in the Surface Warfare and Naval Special Warfare communities. He earned a master’s degree from U.S. Naval War College and is a senior executive fellow from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

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