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 |
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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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