On May 29, FBI Director Robert Mueller announced a sweeping plan to revamp the bureau. The plan requires the bureau to hire some 900 new agents nationwide by September -- mostly specialists in computers, foreign languages and sciences. Andrew Chow, Asian Week (June 6-12), reported, more than 15,000 have already answered that call via application forms posted on the agency's website in February and nearly one-third of those applicants specified they were skilled in "highly critical" foreign languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Pashtu, Urdu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. Chow reported, only 337, or about 3 percent, of the FBI's 11,264 agents are Asian Pacific American, according to bureau statistics as of April 30 and another 342 APAs serve in the FBI as lab technicians and analysts, comprising just over 2 percent of the bureau's support staff. By contrast, APAs make up about 4.5 percent of the American population, according to the 2000 census.