FBI Director James B. Comey has named Gordon Johnson as the special agent in charge of the Baltimore Division. Mr. Johnson most recently served as the deputy assistant director of the Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters.

Mr. Johnson entered on duty with the FBI in 1995. He was first assigned to the New York Field Office, where he investigated national security matters.

Throughout his career, Mr. Johnson has held various leadership positions in the Counterintelligence Division and Baltimore Division, as the FBI’s senior representative to the United States Cyber Command at the National Security Agency, as the special assistant to the FBI’s Associate Deputy Director, and as the acting special agent in charge of the Norfolk Division.

Mr. Johnson will assume this new role at the beginning of October.