PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Portland division has announced its new special agent in charge after the former agent left to begin a national position.
Douglas Olson was named top agent of the FBI’s Portland Field Office on Monday. The new hire most recently worked at the bureau headquarters in Washington, D.C., as the Criminal Investigative Division’s section chief.
The agency reported Olson first began his FBI career at the Charlotte, N.C., field office in 2003. There, he focused on national security matters such as violent crime, white-collar crime and counterterrorism investigations.
He later relocated to the New York office, where he investigated the Genovese family, infamous for organized crime.
Olson’s resumé also includes a stint as program manager of the Eurasian Organized Crime Unit, supervisory senior resident agent of the Salem satellite office in Oregon, and assistant legal attaché of the Stockholm sub-office.
According to the Portland FBI, he previously won an Attorney General award for his contributions to national security in the U.S.
“In 2019, Mr. Olson was named an assistant special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office, where he was responsible for the cyber, counterintelligence, intelligence, and mission support programs,” the agency added in a release. “He was promoted in 2022 to chief of the Operational Support Section of the Criminal Investigative Division at Headquarters.”
Olson will succeed Kieran Ramsey, who has about a 25-year history with the FBI. He was the Portland office’s special agent in charge from January 2021 through Jan. 5 of this year.
Ramsey currently serves as an assistant FBI director, one of 30 across the country. He now reports back to other staff at the bureau headquarters.
During his time in the Portland field office, the agency made 542 arrests, 312 convictions, recovered 366 weapons and rescued 115 children from trafficking and abuse.
