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For Immediate Release
March 21, 2008
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Clayt
Q. Lemme Named SAC of Washington Field Office's Counterintelligence
Division
Clayt
Q. Lemme has been named Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of
the Counterintelligence Division for the Washington field
office. Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed him to
this position to replace SAC Kevin Favreau, who was recently
named Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence
Division at FBI Headquarters. Most recently, Mr. Lemme served
as Chief of the Counterespionage Section of the Counterintelligence
Division at FBI Headquarters. Mr. Lemme has over 30 years
of service in the FBI, with over 20 years of experience
in espionage and foreign counterintelligence investigations.
Mr.
Lemme entered on duty with the FBI in August 1977 as a fingerprint
examiner, and was assigned to FBI Headquarters until he
became a special agent in January 1984. Upon completion
of training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he
was assigned to the Cincinnati Division, where he investigated
white collar crime and violent crime matters. Mr. Lemme
then transferred to the Washington field office, where he
worked primarily foreign counterintelligence and espionage
cases, with intermittent assignments in support of counterterrorism
investigations such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the embassy
bombings in Africa, and the Atlanta Olympics bombing. He
became Supervisor of a Washington field office counterintelligence
squad in 1993.
In
January 2001, Mr. Lemme transferred to the Counterterrorism
Division at FBI Headquarters. While there, he supervised
infrastructure protection matters and participated in the
management of the 9/11 investigations in the weeks following
the attacks. He was then assigned to work with a number
of federal agencies to develop and implement procedures
for the identification and protection of critical national
assets. In February 2003, he returned to counterintelligence,
becoming Unit Chief of a counterespionage unit at FBI Headquarters.
He was promoted in July 2003 to Assistant Section Chief
for counterespionage matters. He remained in that position
until he returned to the Washington field office to serve
as Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Counterintelligence
in May 2005. In May 2006, he was promoted to Chief of the
Counterespionage Section in the Counterintelligence Division
at FBI Headquarters.
Mr.
Lemme was born in Springfield, Illinois, and raised in nearby
Jacksonville. He received bachelor's degrees in psychology
and business finance from the University of Maryland in
1981. He is married with three children.
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