Mr.
Szady currently serves as the Assistant Director of the
Counterintelligence Division, appointed to that position
March 2002 and reappointed following his mandatory retirement
on November 4, 2003. Mr. Szady's former position was as
the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX), a position
created by a Presidential Decision Directive in December
2000.
Mr. Szady has over 30 years of service in the FBI,
with 25 years experience in espionage and foreign
counterintelligence investigations. He entered
on
duty with the FBI in September 1972 and was assigned to the FBI's Mobile,
Alabama, Field Division where he worked general
criminal investigative matters. From
1975 until 1980 he served in the FBI's Washington Field Office and worked
in the FBI's Foreign Counterintelligence (FCI)
program and established himself
as an FCI Soviet expert. In 1980, Mr. Szady was assigned as a supervisor
in the FBI Headquarters Intelligence Division during
which time he was commended
for his supervision and personal attention to the John Walker espionage
investigation. In 1985, he was assigned to the
FBI's San Francisco Division where he served
in a supervisory capacity for both criminal investigative and FCI matters.
He was recognized for his grasp of counterintelligence issues associated
with the hostile intelligence threat in Silicon
Valley.
In 1995, Mr. Szady was appointed to the position of Assistant
Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Division with
responsibility for San Francisco's
FCI and Terrorism Programs. In 1997 he was appointed to the position of
Chief of the CIA's Counter-intelligence Center's Counterespionage
Group (CEG), a
position mandated by Presidential Decision Directive to be held by a senior
executive of the FBI. For his service in this capacity, Mr. Szady was awarded
the CIA's Directorate of Operations (DO) Donovan Award and the CIA's Agency
Seal Medallion. In May 1999, Mr. Szady was appointed Special Agent in Charge
of the FBI's Portland Division where he was responsible for all FBI operations
in Oregon.
Mr. Szady was born and raised in Massachusetts. He received a B.A. degree
in biology from St. Michaels College in Vermont in 1966, a M.Ed degree
in administration
from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts in 1969, and an M.S.T. degree
in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire in 1972.