Talk:Fred Burton (security expert)

I have a record called "Honky Tonk" by Fred Burton. It has no date, but seems like something from the 1950's. Maybe we need a disambiguation page. -- Gabi S. (talk) 20:41, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Agent or Analyst

I've seen and heard a from DSS agents that Burton was an agent and then converted to an analyst. There is another version that he was a DSS special agent 2501 series (foreign service equivalent to an 1811) and then converted to a DSS special agent civil service series 1811. This is not uncommon in DSS especially if you know the right people and decide that you don't want to live overseas anymore (especially true if the wife is making a decent living). I left the entry alone but if anybody has a citation, feel free to correct the entry. I would suspect that since I have never seen it listed that he retired, and you could retire after 20 years as either type of agent that the analyst version is correct. As a civil service employee, he would have had to work 30 years with the government before he could retire.Rsoandrew (talk) 16:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikileaks: not a reliable source
The article states 'Burton was U.S. DSS attaché to the Pan Am 103 crash investigation', and provides Wikileaks as a source. Wikileaks is not a reliable source. I will remove this claim if no better reference is available. - Crosbie 20:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Katz - wikilink misattribution
Samuel Katz links to the wrong person. 98.28.170.62 (talk) 02:00, 13 April 2022 (UTC)