Thomas A. Betro Biography

The President nominated Thomas A. Betro, of Virginia, to be Inspector General at the Department of State. Mr. Betro currently serves as Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Prior to this, he served as Deputy Director for Operations at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Earlier in his career, he served as Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Mr. Betro received his bachelor's degree from Colby College and his master's degree from the Naval War College.

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Thomas A. Betro became the third civilian Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) on January 8, 2006, following his appointment to the position by the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter, Secretary of the Navy.

Thomas Betro and Lauren Holly - , real-life director of NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), made a cameo appearance on the CBS television show NCIS. The CBS show ET ran an interview with Tom; watch a clip at ETonline.com.

As the Director of NCIS, Mr. Betro is the senior official responsible for criminal, counterintelligence, counterterrorism investigations and operations, as well as security matters within the Department of the Navy (DoN). He leads an agency comprised of some 2400 civilian and military personnel that has a presence in over 150 locations world-wide. He is responsible for executing an annual operating budget of approximately 460 million dollars.

Mr. Betro joined NCIS in 1982, and has served in a variety of organizational assignments and mission areas, both within the United States and overseas. He served two separate tours as an NCIS Special Agent Afloat during deployments of the USS JOHN F. KENNEDY and USS ENTERPRISE.

In April 2001, Mr. Betro was selected to serve as a Deputy to the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX). He later was appointed to the position of National Counterintelligence Executive (Acting) by the NCIX Board of Directors, on behalf of the President of the United States.

Upon returning to NCIS in January 2003, Mr. Betro served as Assistant Director of Counterintelligence until August 2003, when he was promoted to Deputy Director for Operations.

Mr. Betro 48 is n native of Walpole Mass. He received a number of awards including the Naval Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2000. holds a Master of Arts degree from the Naval War College, where he earned the James Forrestal Award for "Excellence in Strategy and Force Planning in 1996," and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Colby College, Waterville, ME. in 1981

Mr. Betro was promoted to the Senior Executive Service in March 2002.