John P. O’Neill

Quick Facts

Full Name	John P. O'Neill
Occupation	Special Agent
Date Of Birth	Feb 6, 1952(1952-02-06)
Age	72
Date Of Death	2001-09-11
Birthplace	Atlantic City
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Aquarius

John P. O'Neill Biography

John P. O'Neill is one of the most popular and richest Special Agent who was born on February 6, 1952 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. O’Neill was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on the 6th of February

1952. He wanted to be an FBI special agent from a young age. When he was a kid his favorite TV series was The F.B.I., a crime drama that was based upon real cases handled by the FBI. In 1971, following his graduation of Holy Spirit High School, O’Neill was accepted into American University in Washington, D.C.. There, O’Neill also started working at the FBI’s Washington headquarters, initially as a fingerprint assistant and later, as tour guides. He earned a bachelor’s diploma in the administration of justice at American University in 1974 and then earned a master’s certificate in forensics at George Washington University.

He was in 1995 when he was transferred in 1995 to the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and was appointed chief of the counter-terrorism division. The first day he was there the following day, he received a phone message from his acquaintance Richard Clarke, who had recently learned the news that Ramzi Yousef had been located in Pakistan. O’Neill continued to work continuously for the subsequent days to collect details and coordinate the successful arrest and exile of Yousef. Enthusiastic about the investigation, O’Neill continued to study the 1993 attack Yousef had orchestrated as well as other details about Islamic militants. In June of 1996, he was involved directly in investigating the attack at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia and occurred during an event O’Neill had arranged within Quantico in the name of FBI and CIA agents to counter terrorism. Incredulous at the level of cooperation by those in the Saudis, O’Neill purportedly vented to FBI Director Louis Freeh, saying they were “blowing smoke up your ass,” but Freeh later denied the accusation saying they had a good relationship.

By 1998, O’Neill had become focused on Osama bin Laden and created an al Qaeda desk in his division. In August 1998, two United States embassies were bombed in quick succession in simultaneous attacks in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. O’Neill hoped to be involved in the investigation because he had gained a tremendous knowledge of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network. O’Neill persuaded FBI Director Freeh to let his office handle the case, and prosecutor Mary Jo White later said, “John O’Neill, in the investigation of the bombings of our embassies in East Africa, created the template for successful investigations of international terrorism around the world.”

After being passed over for multiple promotions (to assistant director in charge of national security in 1999 and head of the FBI’s New York office in early 2000), O’Neill was pleased to be assigned as commander of the FBI’s investigation into the USS Cole bombing in October 2000. However, upon arriving in Yemen, he complained about inadequate security. As his team investigated, O’Neill came into conflict with Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen. The two had widely divergent views on how to handle searches of Yemeni property, and interviews with citizens and government officials, and they only grew further apart as time progressed.

He was an Catholic married man with two children, but divorced from his wife. His family remained within Atlantic City, and he helped them financially and even took care of the mortgage for their home. In the words of Lawrence Wright (in The Looming Tower) In the 1990s, O’Neill had been involved simultaneously in extramarital affairs with three women named who each has told that he wasn’t married or divorced and was planning to marry her.

John P. O'Neill Net Worth

John P. O'Neill is one of the richest Special Agent from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John P. O'Neill 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Patrick O’Neill (February 6 1952 – September 11 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert. He was a special agent and then an agent in charge of Special Agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The year 1995 was when O’Neill started to investigate the genesis in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after his involvement in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind that plot.

The FBI appointed O’Neill in the year 1976. For the next 15 years O’Neill dealt with issues like white-collar crime organized crime, as well as counterintelligence from abroad while working at the Washington bureau. The year 1991 was the time he was awarded an impressive promotion. He was transferred in the FBI’s Chicago field office, where O’Neill was the deputy Special Agent in Charge. There, he founded the Fugitive Task Force in an effort to increase inter-agency collaboration and strengthen ties between the FBI and local police. He was appointed in 1994 as the was appointed the supervisor of VAPCON which is a task force that investigates suicide bombings in abortion facilities.

In 1996 and 1997, O’Neill continued to warn of growing threats of terrorism, saying that modern groups are not supported by governments and that there are terrorist cells operating within the United States. He stated that veterans of the insurgency by Afghan rebels against the Soviet Union’s invasion had become a major threat. In January 1997, he moved to New York City to be Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s National Security Division, the FBI’s “largest and most prestigious field office”.

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O’Neill started his new job at the World Trade Center on August 23, 2001. In late August, he talked to his friend Chris Isham about the job. Jokingly, Isham said, “At least they’re not going to bomb it again” (a reference to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing). O’Neill replied, “They’ll probably try to finish the job.”

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Special Agent. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John P. O'Neill celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.

In early 2001, Richard A. Clarke, the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism wanted to move to another position; he insisted O’Neill was the best person to replace him. O’Neill proved reluctant, not least because of the relatively low salary. When O’Neill heard of upcoming leaks to The New York Times about the May 2000 incident in which his briefcase had been stolen, he decided to retire from the bureau and take a higher-paying job in the private sector, as chief of security at the World Trade Center.