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began being used, one of my jobs was checking candidates (possibilities) to see
if the fingerprints matched the ones on record.
In 1984, I was selected to work as a fingerprint examiner in the Identification
Division's Special Communication Stop Operations Unit. I did fingerprint
work concerning Informants, Cooperative Witnesses, non-FBI Undercover,
FBI Stops, missing persons, fugitives, Identification Orders (on display in post
offices), Top Ten Fugitives, etc. I worked there 14 years.
In 1998, I was selected to work in the Latent Print Unit in the Laboratory
Division. I worked there as a Physical Science Technician. I used chemicals
and powders to develop fingerprints, palm prints and footprints on evidence
from major crimes. In 2004, I was assigned to work with TEDAC (Terrorism
Explosive Device Analytical Center). I took apart bombs and developed
mostly fingerprints on the IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) and EFPs
(Explosively Formed Penetrators) using chemicals and powders. The bombs
were from countries around the world, but mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan.
In late 2006, I retired from the FBI. I started working the next day for the FBI
contractor, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). My title
was Latent Fingerprint Technician. I continued using chemicals and powders
to develop mostly fingerprints on the IEDs and EFPs. Many of the fingerprints
that I developed have been identified with the terrorists who made or placed
the bombs or identified in other bomb cases linking the cases. I worked there
for over six years.
I am Roy G. Wetzel and I worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation
from 1957 to 1988. I began my career as a File Clerk and then Investigative
Clerk. On receiving my B.S. degree, I trained as a Special Agent in the
Hoover era. I investigated general criminal and fugitive cases, a synagogue
bombing, housing integration, police brutality and jail inmate complaints.
After training in counterintelligence, I developed sources in the New Left that
deterred attempts to disrupt President Nixon’s second Inauguration, and
provided information about Cuba’s socio-economic status and military
preparedness in the 1970s. For several years, I was assigned to the U.S.
Congressional Appropriations Committee, Investigative Staff, where my team
reported on the F-14 and F-15 developments, meeting their design
specifications, cost and schedule. As an FBI Headquarters’ supervisor, I
managed a successful recruitment program of Foreign Intelligence Officers.
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