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For Immediate Release
June 7, 2006
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Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
(202) 324-3691
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Kevin Favreau Appointed Special Agent in Charge
of the Washington Field Office
Washington,
D.C. – FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
III today announced the appointment of Kevin Favreau as
Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence Division
of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The Counterintelligence
Division provides centralized management and oversight
for all Foreign Counterintelligence (FCI) investigations
in the Washington Field Office territory. The territories
covered by the Washington Field Office are the District
and Columbia and 13 counties and independent cities in
Northern Virginia.
Mr. Favreau brings to the position extensive management
experience, informed by over 23 years of service in the
FBI, with 18 years experience in espionage and counterintelligence
investigations. His career with the FBI began in 1983 in
the Boston Division as an intelligence analyst working
counterintelligence and counter terrorism matters. In 1988,
Mr. Favreau became a Special Agent and he was assigned
to the Pittsburgh Division where for the next eight years
he primarily worked counterespionage and counter terrorism.
Mr. Favreau currently serves as Chief of the new Domain
Support Section at FBI Headquarters, a position he has
held since August 2005. In this position, Mr. Favreau coordinates
all FBI Counterintelligence outreach to the U.S. Intelligence
Community, academia, and the private sector.
In 1996, Mr. Favreau was assigned as a supervisor at FBI
Headquarters in the National Security Division’s
Operational Training Unit where he provided training to
FBI agents and other intelligence community personnel on
counterintelligence issues. He also traveled throughout
the country with the Institute for Intergovernmental Research,
State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) program,
where he lectured on Privacy Act and Federal legal issues
pertaining to intelligence collection, and Federal Roles
and Responsibilities in the event of a terrorist attack.
In April 1999, Mr. Favreau was promoted to the Portland
Division, where he had supervisory oversight of all FBI
investigations in the state of Oregon concerning Domestic
Terrorism, International Terrorism, National Infrastructure
and Computer Intrusion Program, and Foreign Counterintelligence,
to include supervision of the Portland Joint Terrorism
Task Force and the investigation into the criminal activities
of both the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation
Front.
In September 2001, he was detailed from the FBI to the
Central Intelligence Agency as Chief of Staff of the newly
created Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive,
an interagency counterintelligence effort involving the
U.S. Intelligence Community. In May 2002, Mr. Favreau was
named Assistant Section Chief of the newly created Counterespionage
Section at FBI Headquarters. In June 2003, Mr. Favreau
was assigned as Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Counterintelligence
matters at the San Francisco Division of the FBI. In November
2004, Mr. Favreau became the Chief of the Counterespionage
Section at FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC, where he coordinated
all FBI espionage and economic espionage investigations
with the U.S. Intelligence Community and the private sector.
Mr. Favreau is a 1988 graduate of the New England School
of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, where he received a Juris
Doctor degree and a 1983 graduate of Salve Regina University,
Newport, Rhode Island, where he received a Bachelor of Arts
and Sciences degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science.
He is a native of Clinton, Massachusetts and currently resides
in Millersville, Maryland with his wife, a former FBI employee.
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