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David W. Archey, most recently assigned as the “FBI senior lead” at Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s office, has been named special agent in charge of the Richmond Field Office by FBI Director Christopher Wray.

The Richmond FBI office would not say Friday whether Archey was the FBI senior lead “agent” for Mueller and referred questions to Mueller’s office. Archey was the agent overseeing the FBI’s squad attached to Mueller’s probe and was moved to the team in 2017, Politico reported last May.

According to an FBI news release, Archey began working for the FBI in Portland, Ore., as a special agent in 2001. While there, he worked counterterrorism matters and was deployed to the World Trade Center site, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq. He also served as a member of the office’s Evidence Response Team.

Adam S. Lee, the former head of the Richmond office, announced his retirement in November after 22 years with the bureau and nearly five years in the top post in Richmond. He left to work for Dominion Energy on Dec. 1.