He also said there were no plans to downgrade the position from commissioner to office director, as some industry representatives said they feared.

Legal office director of the city of Warsaw (2002-2004)

My first meeting was with the office directors of the N.S.C. staff at 7:30.

"These negotiations were being handled by office directors," he said, "and now it's at the head-of-state level."

The office director, a woman he had known for years, would not give a reason.

He was only 1 of 11 office directors in the bureau and, at age 53, his career in the Foreign Service no longer looked promising.

Harold Berger, office regional director, said he would need more than four times the personnel to do the work properly.

"We just cannot cope," said Jose Ojeda, the office director.

Chester V. Bailey, the office director, said each of his 23 investigators dealt on average with 143 cases, 30 more than the national average.

From 1999 to 2005 he served as the office director for the minister of water resources.