BOSTON - A 30-year veteran of the Army and CIA who served in some of the world's major trouble spots was hired Wednesday to oversee security at Logan International Airport and the Port of Boston. <br>
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Fifty-three-year-old Dennis Treece of Marietta, Georgia, will become the Massachusetts Port Authority's first director of corporate security, a position created after the September 11 attacks to coordinate protection of the agency's assets, which includes two regional airports and the Tobin Bridge. <br>
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Treece, who was a colonel when he retired from the Army two years ago, served in Vietnam, Germany, Bosnia, Kosovo and Kuwait. He received a Purple Heart, three Bronze Stars, two Legions of Merit and other awards. He was assigned to the CIA from 1995 to 1997. <br>
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Treece told the board, ``Like most Americans, I wanted to do something constructive after the attacks of nine/eleven. As a security professional this opportunity to pilot the Massport security operations gives me the chance to get on the security front lines once again.'' <br>
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Treece, who will be paid $200,000 and receive relocation expenses of no more than $35,000, is the second high-salaried executive hired by Massport in the last several months. <br>
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The board hired George Hertz to the $190,000-per-year agency vice president's job in July. <br>
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Since his retirement from the Army, Treece worked at Internet Security Systems in Atlanta, where he helped design, build and staff a global threat operations center to monitor threats to computer networks. <br>
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Treece will work closely with Logan's federal security director, George Naccara, who works for new Transportation Security Administration, created to safeguard aviation after the attacks.
