Oklahoma City Field Office Gets New Special Agent at the Helm – Tickle The Wire

By Steve Neavling

Douglas M. Goodwater, a section chief in the Office of Public Affairs at FBI Headquarters, has been named special agent in charge of the Oklahoma City Field Office.

Goodwater’s first assignment as a special agent was in 2007 with the Oklahoma City Field Office, where he investigated gangs, drug trafficking and violent crimes.

In 2013, Goodwater joined the Guam Resident Agency, a satellite of the Honolulu Field Office, where he investigated financial crimes and government corruption and served on a DEA task force.

In 2015, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters.

A year later, Goodwater was transferred to the Houston Field Office as a supervising special agent overseeing international terrorism investigations. He later led Houston’s Transnational Organized Crime – Western Hemisphere squad.

In 2020, Goodwater became an assistant special agent in charge of the Chicago Field Office, where he oversaw the Criminal Enterprise Branch.

Later that year, he became a deputy special agent in Chicago.

In 2022, he was promoted to chief of the Media and Engagement Division in the Office of Public Affairs at FBI Headquarters, where he oversaw the National Press Office and the Community Relations Unit.

Goodwater earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.