Cesare Frank Figliuzzi, Jr. (born September 12, 1962) is an American former law enforcement agent and author, who served as assistant director for counterintelligence at the

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. Figliuzzi was previously the

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of the

's Cleveland Division, which includes all of northern Ohio, and the major cities of

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, and

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. Following his FBI service, Figliuzzi joined

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and served for five years as assistant chief security officer for investigations, insider threat, workplace violence prevention, and special event security for GE's 300,000 employees in 180 countries. Figliuzzi is a Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst for

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and

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News.

Education

Figliuzzi earned a

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degree in English literature from

Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2023, the university had about 5,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,200 gra ...

and a

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with honors from the

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. Figliuzzi also completed the Harvard University National Security Program for Senior Executives in Government at the

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Career

Figliuzzi joined the FBI as a special agent in August 1987 and has worked for the FBI in the

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and

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, headquarters, and the

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, and

offices. He was the assistant special agent in charge of the Miami Field Office, the FBI's fifth largest office. Figliuzzi also served as the FBI's chief inspector from December 2005 until his appointment as head of the Cleveland Division. As Assistant Director, he was based at FBI Headquarters in

, and worked closely with other government executives. Figliuzzivideopic

In February 2011 then-director

Robert Mueller Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. A graduate of Princeton University and New York University, Mueller served a ...

appointed Figliuzzi assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division.

Author

Figliuzzi is the author of two nonfiction books, ''The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence'', published in 2021, and ''Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers'', published in 2024.

References

External links

Author profile and articles at ''Security'' magazine
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