Massport names corporate security chief, raises fees

BOSTON - A 30-year veteran of the Army and CIA who served in some of the world&#39;s major trouble spots was hired Wednesday to oversee security at Logan International Airport and the Port of Boston. <br> <br> Fifty-three-year-old Dennis Treece of Marietta, Georgia, will become the Massachusetts Port Authority&#39;s first director of corporate security, a position created after the September 11 attacks to coordinate protection of the agency&#39;s assets, which includes two regional airports and the Tobin Bridge. <br> <br> 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> <br> 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.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> 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> <br> The board hired George Hertz to the $190,000-per-year agency vice president&#39;s job in July. <br> <br> 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> <br> Treece will work closely with Logan&#39;s federal security director, George Naccara, who works for new Transportation Security Administration, created to safeguard aviation after the attacks.

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