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Security Levels
Coast Guard Investigative Service
Headquarters Offices and Senior Staff
The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) headquarters office is located in the Ballston Common Office Building in Arlington, VA. It is also the location of the CGIS Washington Field Office (WFO), and the CGIS Polygraph Unit. Also part of the headquarters staff is the Electronic Crimes Section, located at the Telecommunications and Systems Command (TISCOM) in Alexandria, VA and the CGIS Training Detachment located at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA
Mr. David Leighton
Acting Director, Coast Guard Investigative Service
Appointed January 2012 as CGIS Acting Director, Mr.
Leighton serves as the senior federal criminal investigative executive
within the Coast Guard, reporting directly to the Deputy Assistant
Commandant for Intelligence and Criminal Investigations. He serves as a
chief advisor to senior CG leadership and provides expert advice concerning
multiple policy, direction, and managerial issues, including strategic
planning efforts that affect capability of CGIS to support the Coast Guard
and Department of Homeland Security goals and objectives.
As Deputy Director, 2007 to 2012, he performed as the chief advisor and
principal to the Director of CGIS on all operational issues and initiatives.
He advised the CGIS Director on broad administrative/operational issues and
initiatives related to criminal investigations, intelligence collection,
counterintelligence, and counterterrorism/force protection activities
conducted by CGIS personnel worldwide.
From 2001 to 2007, while assigned as the Special Agent in Charge of the CGIS
Central Region, Cleveland, OH, he built a robust Region incorporating CGIS
resources into the District and supporting Units, opening offices in
Buffalo, NY, Detroit, MI, Sault Ste Marie, MI, Chicago, IL and Milwaukee,
WI.
In 2001, Mr. Leighton retired from the U.S. Secret Service as a
Supervisory Special Agent after 20 years of distinguished service. He last
served on the Presidential Protection Detail overseeing the Counter Sniper
and Emergency Response Team Programs and the Joint Operations Center. During
his tenure in the USSS, Mr. Leighton served in a variety of assignments
which include: Supervisory Special Agent, the Presidential Protective
Division, where he directed security operations for President Bush and
President Clinton. While he was the Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge
of the Cleveland Field Office, he supervised the Northern Ohio Organized
Crime Task Force, a multi-agency task force focused on fraud pervasive in
government sponsored entitlement programs. Mr. Leighton also served in a
variety of other assignments to include the Counterfeit Division, the
Counter Assault Team, Training Division and the Detroit Field Office.
Mr. Marty J. Martinez
Assistant Director
Mr. Marty J. Martinez was selected as the Assistant Director of the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) March 2005.
Prior to his appointment as a special agent with CGIS, Mr. Martinez served aboard the U.S.
Coast Guard Cutter GLACIER from 1979 to 1981; the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter
SEDGE from 1981 to 1984; and the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter NORTHLAND from 1984
to 1987. A 1987 graduate of the
Air Force Office of Special Investigations Academy, his career with the
Coast Guard Investigative Service has included
assignments as a special agent at the Washington Field Office in
Washington, DC and the Fifth Coast Guard District in Portsmouth, Virginia;
Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in
the First Coast Guard District, Boston, Massachusetts; Force Rating Manager,
CGIS Headquarters, Washington, DC; Resident Agent-in-Charge, Washington
Field Office in Alexandria, Virginia; and Chief, Investigations Section,
CGIS Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia.
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