
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, October 11, 1993                   TAG: 9310110078
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

AGENT: HARASSMENT CLAIM COST JOB

An FBI agent who told Congress last spring that she had been sexually attacked by a bureau official and suffered retaliation for complaining said Sunday she has been placed on leave without pay.

Susane J. Doucette said FBI officials "didn't provide a reason" when she was suspended last week from her job at the Tucson, Ariz., office. That action "made it clear to me I wasn't coming back," she said. She contended that the suspension was taken in retaliation for her May 26 testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

Doucette, 39, whose husband also is an FBI agent, said she planned to amend her sexual discrimination lawsuit against the Justice Department to include a claim that she was wrongfully discharged from her job.

"We don't have a comment because it's an ongoing action," said FBI spokesman Pete Ginieres.

During her testimony, Doucette told the panel that in late 1988 an FBI superior, whom she didn't identify, had placed a choke hold around her neck and touched her "in ways that are very sensitive."

After filing a complaint, she said, she suffered on-the-job harassment and retaliation.

by CNB