some DSS offices. DSS agents were issued the Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolver (.357 Magnum caliber), but switched to 9mm pistols around 1993. Additional issue: Glock 19 (9mm pistol) Heckler & Koch MP5 (9mm submachine gun) Mk 18 Mod 0 (5.56mm Carbine) M249 light machine gun (5.56mm SAW) M240 machine gun (7.62mm machine gun) M203 grenade launcher (40mm grenade launcher) M2 Browning (.50 machine gun) These and other weapons systems may be employed by DSS Special Agents assigned to high-threat locations. The agents going to those locations attend additional training (HTOC) in these weapons before they are deployed. Leadership Bureau of Secret Intelligence directors Also known as Office of the Chief Special Agent. Robert Lansing (1916), Secretary of State exercising direct control over the Bureau of Secret Intelligence Leland Harrison (1916), Special Assistant who reports to the Deputy Secretary of State (Counselor – Frank L. Polk) Joseph Nye (1917–1920), first Chief Special Agent Robert C. Bannerman (1920–1940), father of future SY Director Thomas F. Fitch (1940–1947) Office of Security directors Robert L. Bannerman (1945–1947), father of third generation SY/DS agent Donald Nicholson (1948–1952) John Ford (1952–1953) Dennis Flinn (1953–1956) E. Tomlin Bailey (1956–1958) William O. Boswell (1958–1962), father of future DS Assistant Secretary of State Eric J. Boswell Otto Otepka, deputy director (1959–1962) John Francis Reilly (1962–1963) G. Marvin Gentile (1964–1974) former FBI Special Agent and CIA Security Officer Viktor Dikeos (1974–1978) Karl Ackerman (1978–1982), former SY Special Agent and FBI Special Agent Marvin Garrett (1982–1983) David C. Fields (1984–1985) David A. Boling (SY Special Agent and diplomatic officer) DSS directors The Director of the DSS is also the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, reporting to an Assistant Secretary of State. Fatalities Since the establishment of the Diplomatic Security Service, four Special Agents have died in the line of duty. As of March 2016, a further 133 locally engaged DSS staff, host country law enforcement personnel and members of the US military had been killed while undertaking diplomatic security duties. In popular culture Film 1972: Target: Embassy (film) – Broderick Crawford plays the embassy Regional Security Officer. 1998: U.S. Marshals – Robert Downey, Jr. plays a rogue DSS agent who is after another DSS agent suspected of murder and treason, portrayed by Wesley Snipes. 2006: Second in Command – Vlad Ivanov plays DSS special agent John Lydon who is assigned as the