Paul R. Houston | |
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 A photography portrait of Paul R. Houston, 2022 | |
| Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) | |
| Assumed office August 22, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Paul R. Houston Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Education | University of Iowa (BA) University of Kentucky (MS) |
| Profession | Special agent |
Paul R. Houston (born 1979) is an American federal law enforcement officer who serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the U.S. Department of State for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) for Threat Investigations and Analysis (TIA).[1][2] During his career with the DSS, Houston served as the director of the DSS Office of Special Investigations conducting criminal and administrative investigations for the U.S. Department of State. Paul served as the deputy director of the Department of State (DS) Command Center.[3] As a member of the Advisory team, he led and participated in numerous projects in the public and private sections, involving conducting overseas criminal and administrative investigations, threat dissemination and crisis command and control.[1]
Paul Houston conducts investigations at the Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ). RFJ is the interagency rewards program created by the U.S. State Department in 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism that offers money as incentive for information of the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).[4] RFJ is a fusion intelligence center that is focused primary on tracking terrorist movements and activities. The Rewards for Justice Program had previously offered a reward for information of a terrorist organization that called themselves the Al-Qaeda[5] who were responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Center. Rewards for Justice Program was then contacted by a person whose identity is anonymous that told the agency the location of the leader of Al-Qaeda. Rewards for Justice received information. On 2 May 2011 at 3:33 AM, the leader of the terrorist group called Al-Qaeda was killed by the U.S. special operation forces.[6]
- ^ a b "Paul R. Houston". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ "Leadership – Bureau of Diplomatic Security". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ "Former aide to retired Iowa U.S. Rep. Jim Leach named as head of threat operations at U.S. Department of State". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ^ "Rewards for Justice". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ "U.S. Offers $1 Million Reward in Hunt for Osama bin Laden's Son". Time. 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ "The Final Chapter in the Hunt for Bin Ladin - CIA". www.cia.gov. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
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