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The station chief, also called chief of station (COS), is the top U.S. Central Intelligence Agency official stationed in a foreign country, equivalent to a KGB Resident. Often the COS has an office in the American Embassy. The station chief is the senior U.S. intelligence representative with his or her respective foreign government.[1]
Those who have been known to be station chiefs include, in alphabetical order:
Name | Location | Years | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Anderson | Beirut[2] | until 1994[3] | Chief of Near East and South Asia Division[4] | |
Edgar Applewhite | Beirut | c. 1959[5] | ||
Francis Archibald | Islamabad | c. 2007 | ||
Daniel C. Arnold | Vientiane | beginning in May 1973;[6] | Taipei, assumed in 1968;[7]: 117 Bangkok, left June 30, 1979[8][9] | |
Jonathan Bank | Islamabad | c. 2010[10] | ||
Milton Bearden | Pakistan; Nigeria; Sudan; Germany | c. 1986–1995[11] | ||
John D. Bennett | Islamabad | 2008–2009[12][13][14] | N'Djamena; Nairobi c. 2002 | |
Cofer Black | Cape Town | c. 1985; | Khartoum Sudan 1993–1995 | |
Douglas Blaufarb | Vientiane, Laos | 1964–1966[15][16] | ||
David Blee | Pretoria; Islamabad; New Delhi | 1965[17] | ||
Janine Brookner | Kingston, Jamaica | 1989–1991[18] | ||
William Buckley | Beirut | 1983–1985 | ||
Jim Campbell | Venezuela | c. 1989[19] | ||
Jeffrey Castelli | Rome | 2003 | Indicted for involvement in the Imam rapito affair | |
Ray S. Cline | Taipei | 1958–1962;[20][7]: 90, 105 | Bonn 1966–1969[21] | |
Charles Cogan | Paris | 1984–1989 | ||
William Colby | Rome | 1953–1958 | Saigon 1960–1962; Head of the Far Eastern Division 1963–1967; DCI 1973–1976[22][23] | |
Michael D’Andrea | Cairo[24][25] | c. 2002-2004 | Chief of Counter Terrorist Center 2006-2015 | |
Peer de Silva | Vienna | 1956–1959 | Seoul 1959–1962; Hong Kong 1962–1963; Saigon 1963–1965; Bangkok 1966–1968; Canberra 1971–1972[26][27] | |
Jack Devine | London | 1995-1998[28] | Rome c. 1980s,[29] Chief of Latin America Division 1992-1994 | |
Larry Devlin | Congo | 1960-61 | Vientiane, Laos[30][31] | |
Jack G. Downing | Moscow | 1986-1989 | Beijing c. 1991 | |
William Duggan | Taipei | 1954-1958 | under the title of: Chief of U.S. Naval Auxiliary Communications Center (NACC)[7]: 86, 90 | |
Wm. H. Dunbar | Bangui (Central African Republic) | 1968–1969[32] | ||
Ron Estes | Prague | 1965-1967[33] | Madrid 1979 | |
Desmond Fitzgerald | Manila | 1955–1956[34] | ||
Harold P. Ford | Taipei | 1965-1968[7]: 111 | NACC Taipei reorganized as U.S. Army Technical Group[7]: 111, 117 | |
David Forden | Athens | 1984-1986 | ||
Barry Kelly | Moscow | ca 1977? | Subsequently moved to the Directorate of Science and Technology as head of the Office of SIGINT Operations. Negotiated a merger of NSA and CIA covert signals intelligence operations into the Special Collection Service. | |
Graham Fuller | Kabul | c. 1980-1981 | ||
Robert Fulton | Moscow | 1975–1977[35] | ||
Clair George | Athens | c. 1976-1979 | ||
Burton Gerber | Moscow | 1980–1982[36] | ||
Robert L. Grenier | Algiers | c. 1990; | Islamabad 1999–2001[12] | |
Jerry "Jay" Gruner | Paris | 1989–1993 | ||
Howard Hart | Islamabad | 1981–1984 | Tehran 1978; Germany | |
John L. Hart | Saigon | c. 1965,[37] c. 1966[38] | ||
Gina Haspel | Azerbaijan | c. 1996–1998 | London c. 2008–2011, 2014–2017 | |
Gardner Hathaway | Moscow | 1977–1980[39] | ||
Paul B. Henze | Ankara; Addis Ababa[40] | 1960s or 1970s | ||
Dick Holm | Paris | 1992-1995 | Brussels 1985-1988 | |
Stephen Holmes (aka Steven Hall) | Moscow | 2013 | Revealed by FSB in retaliation for Ryan Fogle's activities[41][42][43] | |
Robert Jantzen | Bangkok | c. 1959–1966[44][45] | ||
Gordon L. Jorgensen | Laos | c. 1960 | Saigon 1966–c. 1968[46] | |
George Kalaris | Brazil | c. 1972 | ||
Stephen Kappes | Moscow | 1996–1999 | New Delhi; Frankfurt[47] | |
Robert Kandra | Baghdad[48] | c. 2006 | ||
Mark Kelton | Islamabad | 2010–2011[10] | ||
Paul Kolbe | Moscow[49] | c. 2004-2006 | Chief of Central Eurasian Division 2007–2009; | |
Andrew Kim | Seoul[50] | |||
John Lapham | Saigon | c. 1966[51] | ||
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Moscow | c.1994, 2000[52] | ||
James Lawler | Zurich | c. 1991-1994[53] | ||
Jennifer Matthews | Khost | 2009 | Killed in the Camp Chapman attack[12] (Chief of Base, not COS) | |
Stuart Methven | Kinshasa | 1975[54] | ||
Hendrik Van Der Meulen | Amman | c. 2002[55] | ||
Cord Meyer | London | 1973–1976[56] | ||
William Lyle Moseby | C.A.R. (Bangui)[57] | c. 1980 | ||
David Murphy | Berlin | 1959 | Paris 1967[58] | |
Bill Murray | Paris | 2001–2004[59] | ||
Herbert W. Natzke | Philippines | c. 1979[31] | ||
William Nelson | Taipei | 1962-1965 | [7]: 105, 108 | |
William Ross Newland III | Buenos Aires | c. 2000-2001[60] | ||
Duyane Norman | Brazil | 2017[61][62][63] | ||
Birch O'Neill | Guatemala | 1953 | ||
Craig P. Osth | Rio de Janeiro | c. 1999 | Islamabad c. 2013 | |
Eloise Page | Athens[64] | 1970s [65] | First female station chief | |
Richard L. Palmer[66] | Moscow | 1992–1994[67][68] | ||
James Pavitt | Luxembourg | 1983–1986 | ||
David Atlee Phillips | Santo Domingo | 1965–1967 | Brasília 1970–1972[69] | |
Henry Pleasants | Bern | 1950–1956;[70] | Bonn, Germany, 1956–1964[71] | |
Thomas Polgar | Frankfurt | 1949 | Saigon, 1972–1975[70][72] | |
Phillip F. Reilly | Kabul | c. 2003 | Manila c. 2008[73] | |
Robert Richer | Amman | c. 2000 | 2002-2004 Chief of the Near East/South Asia Division[74] | |
Jose Rodriguez | Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic[75] | |||
John R. Sano | Seoul[76] | Chief of East Asia Division 2004–2005; | ||
Winston M. Scott | London | 1947–1950 | Mexico City 1956–1969 | |
Charles Seidel | Cairo[77] | c. 2000–2002 | Baghdad 2002–2003; Amman 2003–2005 | |
Gerry Meyer | Baghdad, around August 2003 to January 2004[78] | |||
Theodore Shackley | Laos | 1966–1968 | Saigon 1968–1972[79] | |
John Sipher | Jakarta | c. 2010 | ||
Stephen Slick | Budapest | c. 1998–2000 | ||
Michael Sulick | Moscow | 1994-1996 | Chief of Central Eurasian Division 1999–2002; Deputy Director of CIA for Operations 2007-2010 | |
John Stockwell | Katanga | 1968 | Burundi 1970 | |
Carleton Swift | Baghdad | 1956–1957[80] | ||
Hugh Tovar | Malaysia and Indonesia | 1960s | Laos and Thailand 1970s;[81] Vientiane, Laos beginning in May 1973 [6] | |
Greg Vogle | Kabul | 2004–2006, 2009–2010[82] | ||
Terry Ward | Honduras | c. 1987-1989[83] | ||
Andrew Warren | Algeria | 2007–2008;[84] | convicted of rape while in station[85] | |
Richard Welch | Lima | 1972 | Athens 1975;[86][87] assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N) | |
Terrence L. Williams | Taipei | c. 2003[88] | under the title of Research and Planning Section Chief, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)[88] | |
Joseph Wippl | Berlin | c. 2001-2003[89] | ||
Frank Wisner | London | c. 1959 | formerly DDP 1952–1959[90] | |
Alan D. Wolfe | Lahore | c. 1969 | Kabul; Islamabad formerly chief of Near East and South Asia Division; Rome c. 1980s[29] |
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