WASHINGTON—FBI Director Kash Patel is stepping up his campaign to take on some of President Trump’s top partisan priorities. In the last few days, Patel has forced out another round of agents who worked on investigations that upset the president and his supporters,

William Webster, a longtime U.S. public servant who served as the head of both the FBI and the CIA in a career spanning the late 1970s to the early 1990s, has died. He was 101.The FBI confirmed his death in a statement Friday.

His family announced his death in a statement that called him an “extraordinary man” who “spent a lifetime fighting to protect his country and its precious rule of law.”

William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, has died. He was 101. “The proud and loving family of the Honorable William H. Webster sadly announces the death of a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and patriot,” his family said in a statement Friday.