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(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) has named Reid R. Pederson to be the Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Export Enforcement's (OEE) Los Angeles field office, John Despres, Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, announced.
In his new position, Pederson will oversee OEE's investigative activity for southern California as well as Hawaii, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and southern Nevada. His office is responsible for investigating and preventing the unlawful exports of U.S.-origin commodities and technical data that are controlled in order to protect national security, foreign policy, and nonproliferation interests of the United States.
Pederson has worked for 9 years as a Special Agent for the Office of Export Enforcement's Chicago Field Office. Prior to joining the Department in 1986, Pederson was a U.S. Postal Inspector in Portland, OR, where he held specialty assignments in mail fraud, internal theft, and external crimes. He also served as a Special Agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, investigating food stamp abuse and corruption, and a manager of forensic accounting services for a CPA firm.
Pederson is a native of Minneapolis, MN, and received a bachelor's degree
in business administration from the University of Minnesota. He and his wife,
Connie, have three teenage children, Brian, Brieanne, and Brent.
In April of 2002 the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) changed its name to the Bureau of Industry and Security(BIS). For historical purposes we have not changed the references to BXA in the legacy documents found in the Archived Press and Public Information.