[2] He is a former deputy assistant director of national security and counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In 1982, he moved to the Madison, Wisconsin Resident Agency to serve as supervisory special agent until 1984.
[5] Following a year at the National War College, he returned to Puerto Rico as assistant special agent in charge of the San Juan Division.
[5] In his final FBI assignment, Brandon spent time working on projects in Poland and Russia and made frequent trips to Asia.
[2] In 1996, on one of his first assignments, Brandon traveled to Philippines island of Mindanao to negotiate a deal for his client, a North American mining company, with a rebel guerrilla group.
Various news sources picked up the story, involving face-to-face descriptions of his meetings with the rebels armed with machine guns in remote parts of the jungle.