PERSON: Terry Turchie
Employer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Position
Director
Biography
Terry Turchie retired from the FBI in April, 2001, having served as the first Deputy Assistant Director of the newly created Counterterrorism Division of the FBI from March, 2000 to April, 2001.
In his early years in the Bureau, Terry chased timber thieves in the Oregon forests. By the 1980s, he was chasing Soviet spies at the United Nations in New York. On one memorable occasion depicted in New York Magazine, he and two of his colleagues wrestled Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov to the ground at a Brooklyn subway station. After a tour of duty between 1987 and 1988 at FBIHQ in Washington, D.C., he took over a counterintelligence squad in San Francisco. Within a year his squad disrupted two major East Bloc espionage operations.
Between 1994 and 1998, Terry directed the UNABOM Task Force (UTF) that identified and arrested Theodore Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, for an 18-year long string of terrorist bombings. Kaczynski pleaded guilty to the UNABOM crimes in February, 1998. In his 1997 book, “UNABOMBER—A Desire to Kill,” author Robert Graysmith referred to Turchie as “the heart and spirit of the investigation.”
Turchie was promoted to the position of Inspector by FBI Director Louis Freeh and appointed to lead the Southeast Bomb Task Force fugitive hunt in the forests of western North Carolina for Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. His interagency coworkers admiringly described him as the “FBI’s Ace.”
As the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, he testified before Congress and traveled extensively overseas with former FBI Director Louis Freeh to facilitate joint investigations of international terrorism and al-Qaeda.
Turchie is a recipient of the FBI Director’s Award as well as the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service. He frequently speaks to corporate and law enforcement groups based on his experience with complex terrorism cases.
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In his early years in the Bureau, Terry chased timber thieves in the Oregon forests. By the 1980s, he was chasing Soviet spies at the United Nations in New York. On one memorable occasion depicted in New York Magazine, he and two of his colleagues wrestled Soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov to the ground at a Brooklyn subway station. After a tour of duty between 1987 and 1988 at FBIHQ in Washington, D.C., he took over a counterintelligence squad in San Francisco. Within a year his squad disrupted two major East Bloc espionage operations.
Between 1994 and 1998, Terry directed the UNABOM Task Force (UTF) that identified and arrested Theodore Kaczynski on April 3, 1996, for an 18-year long string of terrorist bombings. Kaczynski pleaded guilty to the UNABOM crimes in February, 1998. In his 1997 book, “UNABOMBER—A Desire to Kill,” author Robert Graysmith referred to Turchie as “the heart and spirit of the investigation.”
Turchie was promoted to the position of Inspector by FBI Director Louis Freeh and appointed to lead the Southeast Bomb Task Force fugitive hunt in the forests of western North Carolina for Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. His interagency coworkers admiringly described him as the “FBI’s Ace.”
As the Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, he testified before Congress and traveled extensively overseas with former FBI Director Louis Freeh to facilitate joint investigations of international terrorism and al-Qaeda.
Turchie is a recipient of the FBI Director’s Award as well as the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service. He frequently speaks to corporate and law enforcement groups based on his experience with complex terrorism cases.
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