BRUCE TULLY - WikiLeaks



Promoted to the Senior Foreign Service (FEOC) by the President and Congress, equivalent to the rank of Brigadier General, Mr. Tully is a career Federal Law Enforcement Special Agent, with over thirty years’ service and experience beginning with the United States Secret Service, White House and Foreign Missions Divisions. He has expert qualifications in counter-terrorism, executive protection, criminal and national security investigations, risk management, major domestic and international event planning and staffing, asset protection, hostage negotiation, security surveys, firearms training and loss prevention. He provided extensive international security support service under dangerous and critical threat conditions to American Embassies and missions abroad including Beirut, Cairo, Islamabad, Manila, Karachi, Jerusalem, Paris, Kuwait, Damascus, Lima, Mexico City, Papua New Guinea and Havana. He was Agent-in-Charge of high risk and high profile protective details to include; Nelson Mandela, Prince Charles and Israeli Peace Talks leaders. He has extensive, continued positive national media exposure including ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, Good Morning America, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the A&E special, “The DSS – In the Line of Fire.”

He has an impressive record of career achievements, including:

• As Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) of the Washington Field Office, he restructured and elevated WFO into the premier DSS field office nation-wide. He achieved 100% convictions for all criminal investigations.

• In the summer of 2002, he planned/implemented “Operation Eagle Strike,” arresting a known associate of pilots of AA77 that crashed into the Pentagon, leading to the identification of 70 subjects and 48 arrests, which resulted in disrupted criminal/terrorist plans. He joined with SACs of ATF & FBI to lead 230 DSS and law enforcement agents/officers to raid/arrest 18 Hezbollah terrorist subjects on “Operation Smokescreen” in Charlotte, N.C. This was a first time ever counter-terror investigative and enforcement operation in the U.S.

• In Washington, he revamped, trained, rearmed and deployed the DSS Mobile Security Tactical Unit, a World Class counter-terrorist/counter-assassination team, to critical threat posts and protectees worldwide and established as its inaugural Director a state-of-the-art DSS 24-hour, $178 Million Dollar Command Center for World Wide Operations.

• He served as the U. S. Government Security Advisor to the U.S. Olympic Committee.

• Mr. Tully is the recipient of four Departmental Meritorious Honor Awards for: Actions in countering a terrorist ambush on the Secretary of State in an African Country; Security Operations in Hong Kong; Work and Performance with the DSS Mobile Security Division in Tactical Operations; Plans and Management Operations for the Funeral of President Ronald Reagan.

• He is the recipient of a Superior Honor Award for actions in Indonesia to include the investigation and identification of an international drug ring and the arrest and apprehension of an INTERPOL murder fugitive.

• He was nominated for Security Professional of the Year for Outstanding Professionalism as a United States Law Enforcement Officer and Diplomat in U.S. Embassy Operations in Indonesia.

Mr. Tully is the past President of the Diplomatic Security Special Agents Association and active member of the IACP, FLEOA and FOP DC Lodge #1. He is a graduate of Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. [pic]

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