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Education in 1958 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and in 1962
earned a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology. There were no wars in 1962, but there was
a draft, so I ended up in Berlin, Germany, where a wall had just been built
through the middle of the city. As 2 . Lt., I was in charge of operations at
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“Checkpoint Charlie,” the crossover point on the wall between East and West
Berlin. For the past six years, I have been a volunteer at the National
Archives, restoring WWI records.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
I am Edward Holland and I retired as a Supervisory Special Agent assigned
to the National Security Programs Division (NSPD), Office of Export
Enforcement (OEE), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Department
of Commerce. I continue to hold a TS/SCI clearance. As it pertains to
NARFE, I am the president of Chapter 1972; the Maryland Federation
Programs Chair, Public Relations Chair and the Federal Legislative
Committee District 7 Representative. Before retiring, I served as the Unit
Chief, Programs, NSPD. I reported directly to the Assistant Director of NSPD
and managed the FBI Chicago Task Force Section, Entity List Submissions,
Entity List Appeals, Temporary Denial Orders, Investigative FOIA Appeals,
and security-related special projects. I served as OEE’s senior liaison to the
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia’s Law Enforcement Manager Task
Force. Simultaneously, I was the senior enforcement liaison to four State
Department working groups, dealing in missile, nuclear, and technology
transfer interdiction efforts.
Prior to my reassignment to NSPD, I served many years as the BIS Deputy
Director for Programs at the Export Enforcement Coordination Center,
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS). At DHS, I was permanently ‘on loan’ from BIS, serving as an
HSI manager reporting to an HSI executive. My primary responsibility was to
manage the deconfliction of investigations between DHS and BIS and the over
10 interagency law enforcement partners. Among the various agencies, I was
responsible for the coordination of investigative leads, licensing, outreach and
statistical reporting.
Before the DHS assignment, I was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge
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