{"id":60348,"date":"2012-05-25T14:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=60348"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:03:30","slug":"alumnus-to-discuss-fbi-career-at-alumni-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/05\/alumnus-to-discuss-fbi-career-at-alumni-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus to Discuss FBI Career at Alumni Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Trainor ’93 MA special agent in charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office Intelligence Divsion. (Photo: Alfred Giancarli for The Wall Street Journal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

James Trainor \u201993 MA, FBI special agent-in-charge, New York Field Office Intelligence Division, will be the guest speaker at the Alumni Weekend reception and dinner on June 1.<\/p>\n

Trainor\u2019s interest in law enforcement was sparked when he served in the U.S. Army as a military intelligence officer stationed in Germany from 1987 to 1991. As a second lieutenant, he and a fellow officer discussed working for the FBI. \u201cI thought the FBI would have more action at the time,\u201d says Trainor. \u201cI was tired of living overseas, and I was excited about the prospect of doing public service. The FBI is a hybrid of law enforcement and intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trainor earned his master\u2019s degree in public administration from UConn and his bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from Assumption College in Mass. He oversees 400 agents, intelligence analysts, and linguists in his division, or as he calls it, \u201cthe central nerve center.\u201d He\u2019s been with the FBI for 16 years and enjoys the diversity of the mission. \u201cThe cases that I work on range from white-collar crime to counter intelligence,\u201d he says. \u201cMy job has taken me all over the world, and I find my work very rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trainor\u2019s career highlights include investigating the attempted car bombing of Times Square in May 2010 and the arrest of Andrew B. Huang of Cromwell, Conn., in May 2006 for brokering the sale of telecommunications equipment from China to Iraq.<\/p>\n

Each year, the FBI receives 75,000 applicants, of whom only 600 are accepted as special agents. There are 35,000 employees worldwide (2,500 in New York), and Trainor says the organization has changed since 9\/11. \u201cIt\u2019s become proactive versus a reactive agency,\u201d he says, \u201cand to remain competitive in the organization you need an advanced degree as well as foreign language and technical skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trainor recently received UConn\u2019s Department of Public Policy\u2019s Distinguished Alumni Award and he credits the University for helping him be where he is today.<\/p>\n

Alumni weekend will be held on June 1 and 2. For complete details, visit UConnAlumni.com\/AlumniWeekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alumni Weekend June 1 and 2 includes a reception and dinner featuring UConn alum Jim Trainor ’93 MA who serves as special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office Intelligence Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":60187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-60348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 19:23:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103798,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60348\/revisions\/103798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/60187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60348"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=60348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=60348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}