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Mission
The NCIS mission is to investigate and defeat criminal, terrorist, and foreign intelligence threats to the United States Navy and Marine Corps-ashore, afloat, and in cyberspace.
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NCIS Leadership
Special Agent Mark D. Clookie
Director
Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Mark D. Clookie became the fourth civilian Director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) on February 14, 2010, having been appointed by the Honorable Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy.
As NCIS Director, Mr. Clookie leads the agency as it investigates and defeats terrorist, foreign intelligence, and criminal threats to the United States Marine Corps and Navy wherever they operate: ashore, afloat, or in cyberspace. Mr. Clookie’s areas of special emphasis include strengthening human, analytic, and technological capabilities, developing and maintaining strong partnerships and liaison with law enforcement, security services, and intelligence agencies worldwide, and providing agile, adaptive, and responsive support to the Department of the Navy’s enhanced security posture and global engagements.
Prior to his selection as Director, Mr. Clookie served as the Executive Assistant Director for Combating Terrorism with duties overseeing worldwide offensive and defensive operations to detect, deter and disrupt terrorist activities directed at Department of the Navy personnel (Sailors, Marines, civilians and families), installations, and weapons systems.
A career NCIS Special Agent (SA), Mr. Clookie began serving the Department of the Navy in March 1982 at the Resident Agency (RA) in Newport, RI. In June of 1987, SA Clookie began a series of tours in Washington, DC: Headquarters Desk Officer, representative to the Office of the Naval Inspector General, and Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Fraud Unit.
From July 1993 until December 1995, SA Clookie was the Resident Agent in Charge of the NCIS RA in Bahrain. After this tour, he assumed duties as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the NCIS Northeast Field Office until June 1998.
The following month, SA Clookie moved his family to Okinawa, Japan, where he became the Resident Agent in Charge until August of 2000. Returning to Washington, DC, he was named Head of Agent Control and Personnel Operations within NCIS Headquarters.
In August 2001, SA Clookie reported to the Pentagon as Chief, Joint Staff Support Branch, Joint Counterintelligence Center (J2CI). Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, he became the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the NCIS Middle East Field Office, Manama, Bahrain and directed all counterintelligence, counterterrorism and criminal investigative operations throughout the Middle East, East Africa and Southwest Asia. His primary focus was direct support to Navy and Marine Corps Forces Central Command and the Navy’s Fifth Fleet.
After more than two years in the Middle East directing NCIS Global War on Terrorism missions, Mr. Clookie returned to NCIS Headquarters as the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director for Management and Administration. He also led NCIS modernization initiatives and was later promoted to Assistant Director for Human Resources.
In October 2007, Mr. Clookie was promoted to Senior Executive Service and assumed responsibilities as the Executive Assistant Director for Middle East and Pacific Operations.
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