CHIEF TALK: Episode #16
James Dennehy - Special Agent in Charge, Newark
Chief Talk is proud to welcome Jim Dennehy, FBI Special Agent in Charge, Newark, to the podcast.
Jim has spent most of his FBI career in the New York Office. He joined the FBI as a Special Agent in 2002 assigned to work counterintelligence cases. He also served in leadership roles on the SWAT team and was certified as a crisis management coordinator.
In 2013, Jim was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent of the counterintelligence and counter-proliferation squad in New York's Hudson Valley and White Plains resident agencies.
He has guided the FBl's efforts to combat attempts by foreign adversaries to obtain export-controlled, sensitive technologies related to weapons of mass destruction and missile, space, and conventional weapons systems. His exhaustive career has also spanned crisis management, firearms, operations command, recruiting, private sector engagement and community outreach, and several other programs.
Jim also served as an officer in the U.S. Marines seven years, deployed to Haiti, Liberia, and the Adriatic Sea. He has received both the FBI Director's Award for Outstanding Counterintelligence Investigation and the Attorney General's Award for Furthering the Interests of National Security, as well as numerous National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citations.
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