List of CIA station chiefs
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, Laos | beginning in May 1973;[6] | Bangkok, left June 30, 1979[7][8] | |
Jonathan Bank | Islamabad | c. 2010[9] | ||
Milton Bearden | Pakistan; Nigeria; Sudan; Germany | c. 1986–1995[10] | ||
John D. Bennett | Islamabad | 2008–2009[11][12][13] | N'Djamena; Nairobi c. 2002 | |
Cofer Black | Cape Town | c. 1985; | Khartoum Sudan 1993–1995 | |
Douglas Blaufarb | Vientiane, Laos | 1964–1966[14][15] | ||
David Blee | Pretoria; Islamabad; New Delhi | 1965[16] | ||
Janine Brookner | Kingston, Jamaica | 1989–1991[17] | ||
William Buckley | Beirut | 1983–1985 | ||
Jeffrey Castelli | Rome | 2003 | Indicted for involvement in the Imam rapito affair | |
Ray S. Cline | Taipei | 1958–1962;[18] | Bonn 1966–1969[19] | |
Charles Cogan | Paris | 1984–1989 | ||
William Colby | Rome | 1953–1958 | Saigon 1960–1962; Head of the Far Eastern Division 1963–1967; DCI 1973–1976[20][21] | |
Michael D’Andrea | Cairo[22][23] | c. 2002-2004 | Chief of 2006-2015 | |
Peer de Silva | Vienna | 1956–1959 | Seoul 1959–1962; Hong Kong 1962–1963; Saigon 1963–1965; Bangkok 1966–1968; Canberra 1971–1972[24][25] | |
Jack Devine | London | 1995-1998[26] | Chief of Latin America Division 1992-1994 | |
Larry Devlin | Congo | 1960-61 | Vientiane, Laos[27][28] | |
Jack G. Downing | Moscow | 1986-1989 | Beijing c. 1991 | |
Wm. H. Dunbar | Bangui (Central African Republic) | 1968–1969[29] | ||
Ron Estes | Prague | 1965-1967[30] | Madrid 1979 | |
Desmond Fitzgerald | Manila | 1955–1956[31] | ||
David Forden | Athens | 1984-1986 | ||
Graham Fuller | Kabul | c. 1980-1981 | ||
Robert Fulton | Moscow | 1975–1977[32] | ||
Clair George | Athens | c. 1976-1979 | ||
Burton Gerber | Moscow | 1980–1982[33] | ||
Robert L. Grenier | Algiers | c. 1990; | Islamabad 1999–2001[11] | |
Jerry "Jay" Gruner | Paris | 1989–1993 | ||
Howard Hart | Islamabad | 1981–1984 | Tehran 1978; Germany | |
John L. Hart | Saigon | c. 1965,[34] c. 1966[35] | ||
Gina Haspel | Azerbaijan | c. 1996–1998 | London c. 2008–2011, 2014–2017 | |
Gardner Hathaway | Moscow | 1977–1980[36] | ||
Dick Holm | Paris | 1992-1995 | Brussels 1985-1988 | |
Stephen Holmes (aka Steven Hall) | Moscow, Russia | 2013 | Revealed by FSB in retaliation for Ryan Fogle's activities[37][38][39][40] | |
Robert Jantzen | Bangkok | c. 1959–1966[41][42] | ||
Gordon L. Jorgensen | Laos | c. 1960 | Saigon 1966–c. 1968[43] | |
George Kalaris | Brazil | c. 1972 | ||
Stephen Kappes | Moscow | 1996–1999 | New Delhi; Frankfurt[44] | |
Robert Kandra | Baghdad[45] | c. 2006 | ||
Mark Kelton | Islamabad | 2010–2011[9] | ||
Paul Kolbe | Moscow[46] | c. 2004-2006 | Chief of Central Eurasian Division 2007–2009; | |
Andrew Kim | Seoul[47] | |||
John Lapham | Saigon | c. 1966[48] | ||
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Moscow | c. 2000[49] | ||
James Lawler | Zurich | c. 1991-1994[50] | ||
Jennifer Matthews | Khost | 2009 | Killed in the Camp Chapman attack[11] (Chief of Base, not COS) | |
Stuart Methven | Kinsasha | 1975[51] | ||
Hendrik Van Der Meulen | Amman, Jordan | c. 2002[52] | ||
Cord Meyer | London | 1973–1976[53] | ||
William Lyle Moseby | C.A.R. (Bangui)[54] | c. 1980 | ||
David Murphy | Berlin | 1959 | Paris 1967[55] | |
Bill Murray | Paris | 2001–2004[56] | ||
Herbert W. Natzke | Philippines | c. 1979[28] | ||
William Nelson | Taiwan | 1963 | ||
William Ross Newland III | Buenos Aires, Argentina | c. 2000-2001[57] | ||
Duyane Norman | Brazil | 2017[58][59][60] | ||
Birch O'Neill | Guatemala | 1953 | ||
Craig P. Osth | Rio de Janeiro | c. 1999 | Islamabad c. 2013 | |
Eloise Page | (Location not given) | 1970s [61] | First female station chief | |
James Pavitt | Luxembourg | 1983–1986 | ||
David Atlee Phillips | Santo Domingo | 1965–1967 | Brasília 1970–1972[62] | |
Henry Pleasants | Bern, Switzerland | 1950–1956;[63] | Bonn, Germany, 1956–1964[64] | |
Thomas Polgar | Frankfurt | 1949 | Saigon, 1972–1975[63][65] | |
Phillip F. Reilly | Kabul | c. 2003 | Manila c. 2008 | |
Robert Richer | Amman, Jordan | c. 2000 | 2002-2004 Chief of the Near East/South Asia Division[66] | |
Jose Rodriguez | Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic[67] | |||
Seoul[68] | Chief of East Asia Division 2004–2005; | |||
Winston M. Scott | London | 1947–1950 | Mexico City 1956–1969 | |
Charles Seidel | Cairo[69] | c. 2000–2002 | Baghdad 2002–2003; Amman 2003–2005 | |
Baghdad, around August 2003 to January 2004[70] | ||||
Theodore Shackley | Laos | 1966–1968 | Saigon 1968–1972[71] | |
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[72] | ||
Hugh Tovar | Malaysia and Indonesia | 1960s | Laos and Thailand 1970s;[73] Vientiane, Laos beginning in May 1973 [6] | |
Greg Vogle | Kabul | 2004–2006, 2009–2010[74] | ||
Terry Ward | Honduras | c. 1987-1989[75] | ||
Andrew Warren | Algeria | 2007–2008;[76] | convicted of rape while in station[77] | |
Richard Welch | Lima | 1972 | Athens 1975;[78][79] assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N) | |
Joseph Wippl | Berlin, Germany | c. 2001-2003[80] | ||
Frank Wisner | London | c. 1959 | formerly DDP 1952–1959[81] | |
Lahore | c. 1969 | Kabul; Islamabad formerly chief of Near East and South Asia Division |
Bibliography[]
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- David Hoffman, Billion Dollar Spy. A true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal (New York: Doubleday 2015).
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- W. Thomas Smith, Jr., Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency (New York: Facts on File 2003).
- Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men. The daring early years of the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster 1995, 2006).
See also[]
- 2010 CIA Station Chief removal in Pakistan
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Kim had spent a career in the agency and retired after working as station chief in Seoul.
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According to the agenda of general Sérgio Etchegoyen, chief minister of the GSI, which was released on the agency's website on June 9th, Duyane Norman either was or is the "station chief of the CIA in Brasília".
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serving from Peru to Belize and heading the C.I.A. stations in Panama, the Dominican Republic and Mexico
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The third of the Greek terrorists accused of the assassination of CIA Station Chief Richard S. Welch in 1975 has been arrested
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