Evan DeWeese

Mr. Evan DeWeese
File:Arvin sloane.jpg Director DeWeese at The Capitol giving the Imperial Senate an annual intelligence report in May 2014.
Director of the I.B.I.
Incumbent
Assumed office September 6th, 2008
Preceded by	Warren Reiss
Personal details
Born	November 27th, 1939 Valena, South Dakos
Nationality	Belhavian
Political party	Independent
Spouse	Evelin Silverman (girlfriend; 1998 - Present)
Residence	Provisa
Alma mater	B.S., Communications, South Dakos Provincial University
Profession	Spy, Intelligence Operative, Functionary, Consultant

Evan G. DeWeese (born November 27th, 1939) is the current Director of Imperial Belhavian Intelligence and a longtime intelligence operative within the IBI. He briefly retired from the IBI to serve as the head of intelligence operations for the private defense contractor Pyrion Group, before being tapped by President Jeff Arnoth in 2008 to become the new IBI director in what Arnoth lauded at the time as "an invigoration of experienced, but new blood in the agency's leadership."

DeWeese came from an ethnic white Emmerian immigrant family that had arrived in Belhavia in the early 20th-century and had a profitable family farm in South Dakos. One of a family of nine siblings, and being a middle child, DeWeese had few options in the rural backwater community. At age 18 in 1957, he joined the agency at a time of high tensions in the cold war between the Anti-Communist World and the Communist Pardes, with his college education paid for by the agency.

After graduating a local provincial college, he joined the agency as a field operative in the early 1960s, conducting allied counter-intelligence work against communist spies in Emmeria and the Western Confederacy. From 1979 - 1984, he was posted in Westonaria, where its alleged he partook in the Myrdesia War in the Federation of Myrdesia (comprising contemporary Goredemabwa) with Emmerian mercenaries and military forces opposed by local communist rebels backed by the Anikatians.

In 1984, he did a stint in Rodarion where he witnessed the fading events of Operation Rainbow. He became station chief in Belfras in 1986, and served until 1989, when he was appointed interm station chief of the IBI station in the Western Confederacy following the sacking of its previous chief in the Lieberman Scandal. Throughout the 1990s, DeWeese served senior field officer positions in the global Far East, including time in Ulthrannia, Valinor, and Communist Anikatia. He also served as station chief for the Belhavian crown territory of New Shelvoy adjacent to Anikatia.

In 2006, he retired to the private sector, working as the intelligence chief for the Pyrion Group. However, two years later, he was among the finalists on the shortlist for the vacancy in the IBI's directorship, and he was appointed by President Arnoth in mid-2008. His time atop the IBI has been extremely controversial, and he has become a figure of conspiracy theories and disdain by the left and civil libertarians, who accuse him of corruption, war crimes, assassinations of foreign figures, and lacking transparency. His defenders hold that he is a pragmatic, shrewd, and effective champion of Belhavian security interests.

Early Life and Education

Evan Garret DeWeese was born in 1939 in the poor farming village of Valencia, in the South Dakos province. His immigrant family were white Romulan Catholics from Emmeria who came over in the 1910s. By the late 1930s, the family had eked out a modestly-successful agricultural business, and they enjoyed a middle-income lifestyle.

Being devout Catholics involved in a sizable community of the same immigrant story and religious beliefs, they escrewed the mainstream Eisenburg Regional Yeshiva, which catered to the Jewish majority, in favor of a struggling small Catholic "K-thru-12" school to educate DeWeese in called St. Lucian's Academy. However, as he became a teenager, he was noted as losing his faith and was almost expelled twice by the academy administration. He frequently endured corporal punishment by teaching nuns for rough-housing and obstinacy in class. Still, he received top grades from all his classes, and graduated in the top 2% of his class.

After he graduated St. Lucian's, he had few opportunities. His family business was profitable but could not support hiring him at a livable salary; the academy was regarded by the surrounding business community as a subpar educational institution and frequently rejected its graduates for jobs. In the summer after his graduation, the Imperial Belhavian Intelligence agency had a traveling recruitment team that transversed the rural communities of Middle Belhavia. He was intrigued with the work and careers they described, and its ability to pay for his college schooling if he joined. He signed up at the end of the IBI's fair, and attended the local South Dakos Provincial University for four years, earning his bachelor's of science in communications.