What happened with Barry Mawn?

Former controversial FBI-agent works for Security Company O' Toole Associates

What happened with Barry Mawn?

GFP, August 4

Barry Mawn, friend of former Anti-Terror Specialist John O'Neill, was the FBI agent, who found the famous "passport in the rubble" in front of WTC 7, Vesey Street, by one of the Hijackers, Sataam al-Suqami.

The passport was immediately classified and never shown to the public.

Mawn was then involved in the New Yorker investigation on the Anthrax scare. Due to a November 11th, 2001 press conference with Tom Ridge of the Homeland Security, Mawn protested during the investigation, that the original source was homegrown by US -Military:

"Q: Barry Mawn, of the New York FBI is quoted in today's Boston Globe as saying it was produced in the U.S.
He said, "It was made here." Is that incorrect?

GOVERNOR RIDGE: Well, he may have a suspicion that it was made here. But, clearly, in talking with the FBI Director and other individuals involved in the FBI, there is no credible evidence that points specifically..."
(Source: WhiteHouse Press Release 11/07/01)

Mawn was then forced to put the Anthrax-NBC investigation on hold:

"...Although the F.B.I. was notified on Sept. 25 about suspicious letters sent to NBC, neither the letters, nor the powder residue inside them were tested until nearly two weeks later, and then only because a private doctor notified city public health officials about a troubling skin condition in the news assistant who had handled the mail, officials acknowledged yesterday.

Source: Policetalk

Only a few months later, on March 22nd, 2002, Mawn resigned at the FBI.

Mawn almost started a job at Boston airport's security company Massport as a security chief.
The very same company who was responsible for the airport, where the official "ringleader" of the Sep11th attacks was screened.

"...Robinson said hiring a CEO will allow Massport to then turn its attention to hiring a new director of security. A number of candidates are interested in the job - reportedly including retired FBI supervisor Barry Mawn..."

But Mawn didn't get the job.

Mawn later appeared in a John O'Neill-documentation by PBS.

Mawn, as late as Nov 2001, was being considered for a move up the ladder, as reported in TIME magazine:

"...FBI director Bob Mueller is about to announce radical changes in the way the FBI looks and operates. The recently announced retirements of two top officials — deputy director Tom Pickard and assistant director Neil Gallagher — are only the beginning.

...Mueller hasn't said who will replace them, but word around the bureau is that he is considering bringing back the concept of William Webster's top management triumvirate... But which three? Smart money says Mueller will elevate Assistant Director Dale Watson, currently head of counter-terrorism, to the counterterrorism/national security slot.

The task of overseeing criminal investigations — most of the bureau's work — could go to current Assistant Director Reuben Garcia, Assistant Director Barry Mawn, now head of the flagship New York Office, Bruce Gephardt, the special agent in charge in San Francisco, with whom Mueller bonded when he was U.S. Attorney there — or another field commander..."

It was never explained, why Mawn didn't get this job. Rumour has it, that he was forced out of the F.B.I.

Since March 2002, nothing was known about Mawn's whereabouts.

Finally GFP found out, where he's working. As an executive at international consulting and security firm O' Toole Associates in Boston.

President Kathleen M. O’Toole is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Committee on Terrorism, the Police Executive Research Forum and the F.B.I. National Executive Institute Associates.

Barry Mawn is now one of the Executives at O'Toole.

This seems to be less spectacular than at the FBI.

During his 30-year career, he has overseen the development and implementation of countless security strategies in response to several large scale events including the American Airlines plane crash in November 2001, the investigation of the USS Cole incident, Egypt Air’s Flight 990, investigations relating to the Unabomber, and the bombing that occurred at the 1996 Olympics.

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