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- 1 2 "MGM Mirage Hires Former FBI Deputy Director to Oversee Security from Associated Press".
- ↑ Casper, Robert A. Sr. (1 October 2015). The FBI, a Vocation to Serve. Page Publishing Inc. ISBN 9781681390079 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 3 "Director Robert Mueller Announces Deputy Director Bruce Gebhardt Will be Retiring Effective October 2004".
- ↑ "Antiterror Chief Quits F.B.I., Which Gets New Deputy". The New York Times. 16 August 2002.
- ↑ "FBI Director Mueller Announces Bruce J. Gebhardt as Executive Assistant Director for Criminal Investigations".
- ↑ Graff, Garrett M. (28 March 2011). The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316120883 – via Google Books.
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