April 21, 2016

A special year for a special agent

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The covert work of Thomas Olohan ’90, an FBI supervisory special agent, is a mystery … to a point.

Assigned to the Washington, D.C., Field Office, he was honored three times in 2015. Olohan received the bureau’s highest honor, the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence, as well as the Anti-Defamation League SHIELD Award and the ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) Intelligence Integration Unit Citation Award.

In earning the FBI Director’s Award, he joined a team of officers from the FBI and the Department of Defense in initiating intelligence work that culminated in an unprecedented, joint human source handling relationship. The SHIELD Award — which recognizes success in the fight against hate crimes, extremism, and terrorism, and for protecting human rights — acknowledged Olohan’s role in an investigation that led to an arrest and incarceration. The ODNI honor was presented for outstanding efforts against cyberterrorism.

Olohan, whose father and six siblings all graduated from PC, and his wife Jane are the proud parents of 11 children. The Olohans, including Thomas’ mother-in-law, Barbara O’Brien (rear right), are pictured here following the FBI award ceremony.