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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Special Agent in | ||||||
| 4 | Charge of the Springfield Division of the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
| 5 | Investigation Weysan Dun on his appointment as Special Agent in | ||||||
| 6 | Charge of the Newark, New Jersey Division; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Mr. Dun began his career as an FBI Special Agent | ||||||
| 8 | in 1982; he served in the San Francisco, Omaha, and Chicago | ||||||
| 9 | Divisions, where he specialized in national security matters, | ||||||
| 10 | high technology theft investigations, violent crimes, | ||||||
| 11 | terrorism, and extremist matters; while in Omaha, Mr. Dun | ||||||
| 12 | directed and conducted a domestic terrorism investigation that | ||||||
| 13 | resulted in the dismantling of an extremist organization in | ||||||
| 14 | southeastern Nebraska in 1985; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, In 1988, Mr. Dun was promoted to Supervisory | ||||||
| 16 | Special Agent of the National Security Division at FBI | ||||||
| 17 | Headquarters in Washington, D.C; he also served as an Assistant | ||||||
| 18 | Inspector in the Inspection Division; in 1991, Mr. Dun became a | ||||||
| 19 | Supervisory Senior Resident Agent in the Hartford, Connecticut | ||||||
| 20 | Resident Agency, where he directed several Violent Crimes Gang | ||||||
| 21 | Task Forces that helped dismantle a number of violent street | ||||||
| 22 | gangs in Connecticut; he also led numerous Organized Crime Drug | ||||||
| 23 | Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigations targeting major | ||||||
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| 1 | drug trafficking groups in New England; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Mr. Dun returned to FBI Headquarters in 1997, | ||||||
| 3 | where he directed the creation of the Program Management and | ||||||
| 4 | Coordination Unit in the Organized Crime/Drug Investigations | ||||||
| 5 | Branch of the Criminal Investigative Division; Mr. Dun served | ||||||
| 6 | as chief of this unit until he was designated Assistant Special | ||||||
| 7 | Agent in Charge of the Omaha Division in July 1998; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, In Omaha, Mr. Dun directed a number of significant | ||||||
| 9 | drug, violent crime, domestic terrorism, and cyber crime | ||||||
| 10 | investigations, and the implementation of the Nebraska/Iowa | ||||||
| 11 | Joint Terrorism Task Force; in July 2002, he was promoted to | ||||||
| 12 | Inspector in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters, where | ||||||
| 13 | he served until July 2003, when he was designated Special Agent | ||||||
| 14 | in Charge of the Springfield Division
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Mr. Dun is a native of Kirksville, Missouri; he | ||||||
| 16 | earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Cornell University in | ||||||
| 17 | Ithaca, New York; he served in the United States Army, Military | ||||||
| 18 | Intelligence Branch, where he attained the rank of Captain and | ||||||
| 19 | was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal; therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 21 | NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 22 | congratulate Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun on his | ||||||
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| 1 | promotion to the Newark Division; and be it further
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| 2 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 3 | presented to Special Agent in Charge Dun as a symbol of our | ||||||
| 4 | respect.
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