Larry A. Potts

Larry A. Potts
7th Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
In office
February 1995  July 14, 1995
Acting: February 1995 – May 2, 1995
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byDavid G. Binney
Succeeded byWeldon L. Kennedy

Larry A. Potts is an American former FBI agent who briefly served as Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1995. Potts was demoted due to investigation into two infamous high-profile FBI controversies that he had been involved in: the 1992 standoff with American survivalist Randy Weaver in Idaho, and the 1993 standoff with the Texas Branch Davidian church led by David Koresh.