Larry A. Potts is an American former

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who briefly served as

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in 1995. Potts was demoted due to investigation into two infamous high-profile FBI controversies that he had been involved in: the 1992 standoff with American

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Randy Weaver in Idaho, and the 1993 standoff with the Texas

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church led by

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Potts, Larry A. Living people Deputy directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Year of birth missing (living people)