Merletti Sworn in as 19th Director of Secret Service
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WASHINGTON — Lewis C. Merletti, who led the Treasury Department’s investigation of the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, was sworn in Friday as the 19th director of the Secret Service.
Merletti, 49, an agency veteran, replaces Eljay B. Bowron, who resigned to become president of the security monitoring division of Ameritech. He was sworn in by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
Most recently, Merletti served as assistant director of the 132-year-old agency’s Office of Training. Earlier, he had been special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division.
In 1996, he oversaw security for President Clinton’s visit to Egypt and Israel and, the same year, for his trip to Bosnia.
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