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 | c. 1959[5] | ||||
| Francis Archibald | c. 2007 | ||||
| Daniel C. Arnold | beginning in May 1973;[6] | Taipei, assumed in 1968; Bangkok, left June 30, 1979[7] [8] | |||
| Jonathan Bank | c. 2010[9] | ||||
| Milton Bearden | Pakistan | c. 1986–1995[10] | |||
| 2008–2009[11] [12] | N'Djamena; Nairobi c. 2002 | ||||
| c. 1985; | Khartoum Sudan 1993–1995 | ||||
| Douglas Blaufarb | 1964–1966[13] [14] | ||||
| Pretoria | 1965[15] | ||||
| Janine Brookner | Kingston, Jamaica | 1989–1991[16] | |||
| 1983–1985 | |||||
| Jim Campbell | c. 1989[17] | ||||
| 2003 | Indicted for involvement in the Imam rapito affair | ||||
| Ray S. Cline | 1958–1962;[18] | Bonn 1966–1969[19] | |||
| 1984–1989 | |||||
| 1953–1958 | Saigon 1960–1962; Head of the Far Eastern Division 1963–1967; DCI 1973–1976[20] [21] | ||||
| Cairo[22] [23] | c. 2002-2004 | Chief of Counter Terrorist Center 2006-2015 | |||
| 1956–1959 | Seoul 1959–1962; Hong Kong 1962–1963; Saigon 1963–1965; Bangkok 1966–1968; Canberra 1971–1972[24] [25] | ||||
| 1995-1998[26] | Rome c. 1980s,[27] Chief of Latin America Division 1992-1994 | ||||
| 1960-61 | Vientiane, Laos[28] | ||||
| 1986-1989 | Beijing c. 1991 | ||||
| William Duggan | Taipei | 1954-1958 | under the title of: Chief of U.S. Naval Auxiliary Communications Center (NACC) | ||
| Wm. H. Dunbar | Bangui (Central African Republic) | 1968–1969[29] | |||
| Ron Estes | 1965-1967[30] | Madrid 1979 | |||
| 1955–1956[31] | |||||
| Harold P. Ford | Taipei | 1965-1968 | NACC Taipei reorganized as U.S. Army Technical Group | ||
| 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. | ||
| Kabul | c. 1980-1981 | ||||
| Robert Fulton | 1975–1977[32] | ||||
| Clair George | Athens | c. 1976-1979 | |||
| Burton Gerber | 1980–1982[33] | ||||
| c. 1990; | Islamabad 1999–2001[34] | ||||
| Jerry "Jay" Gruner | 1989–1993 | ||||
| 1981–1984 | Tehran 1978; Germany | ||||
| John L. Hart | c. 1965,[35] c. 1966[36] | ||||
| c. 1996–1998 | London c. 2008–2011, 2014–2017 | ||||
| 1977–1980[37] | |||||
| Paul B. Henze | Ankara | 1960s or 1970s | |||
| 1992-1995 | Brussels 1985-1988 | ||||
| Stephen Holmes (aka Steven Hall) | 2013 | Revealed by FSB in retaliation for Ryan Fogle's activities[39] [40] [41] | |||
| Robert Jantzen | c. 1959–1966[42] [43] | ||||
| Gordon L. Jorgensen | c. 1960 | Saigon 1966–c. 1968[44] | |||
| George Kalaris | Brazil | c. 1972 | |||
| 1996–1999 | New Delhi | ||||
| Robert Kandra | Baghdad[46] | c. 2006 | |||
| 2010–2011 | |||||
| Paul Kolbe | Moscow[47] | c. 2004-2006 | Chief of Central Eurasian Division 2007–2009; | ||
| Andrew Kim | Seoul[48] | ||||
| John Lapham | Saigon | c. 1966[49] | |||
| Rolf Mowatt-Larssen | Moscow | c.1994, 2000[50] | |||
| James Lawler | Zurich | c. 1991-1994[51] | |||
| 2009 | Killed in the Camp Chapman attack (Chief of Base, not COS) | ||||
| Stuart Methven | Kinshasa | 1975[52] | |||
| Hendrik Van Der Meulen | Amman | c. 2002[53] | |||
| 1973–1976[54] | |||||
| William Lyle Moseby | C.A.R. (Bangui)[55] | c. 1980 | |||
| 1959 | Paris 1967[56] | ||||
| 2001–2004[57] | |||||
| Herbert W. Natzke | c. 1979[58] | ||||
| William Nelson | Taipei | 1962-1965 | |||
| William Ross Newland III | Buenos Aires | c. 2000-2001[59] | |||
| Duyane Norman | 2017[60] [61] [62] | ||||
| Guatemala | 1953 | ||||
| Craig P. Osth | c. 1999 | Islamabad c. 2013 | |||
| Athens[63] | 1970s [64] | First female station chief | |||
| Richard L. Palmer[65] | 1992–1994[66] | ||||
| 1983–1986 | |||||
| 1965–1967 | Brasília 1970–1972[67] | ||||
| Henry Pleasants | Bern | 1950–1956;[68] | Partners at Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments. Annapolis | Naval Institute Press, 2003. x + 243 pp, . | Bonn, Germany, 1956–1964[69] |
| Thomas Polgar | Frankfurt | 1949 | Saigon, 1972–1975[70] | ||
| Phillip F. Reilly | Kabul | c. 2003 | Manila c. 2008 | ||
| Robert Richer | Amman | c. 2000 | 2002-2004 Chief of the Near East/South Asia Division[71] | ||
| Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic[72] | |||||
| Seoul[73] | Chief of East Asia Division 2004–2005; | ||||
| London | 1947–1950 | Mexico City 1956–1969 | |||
| Charles Seidel | Cairo[74] | c. 2000–2002 | Baghdad 2002–2003; Amman 2003–2005 | ||
| Baghdad, around August 2003 to January 2004[75] | |||||
| Laos | 1966–1968 | Saigon 1968–1972[76] | |||
| John Sipher | Jakarta | c. 2010 | |||
| c. 1998–2000 | |||||
| 1994-1996 | Chief of Central Eurasian Division 1999–2002; Deputy Director of CIA for Operations 2007-2010 | ||||
| 1968 | Burundi 1970 | ||||
| 1956–1957[77] | |||||
| Hugh Tovar | Malaysia and Indonesia | 1960s | Laos and Thailand 1970s;[78] Vientiane, Laos beginning in May 1973 | ||
| Greg Vogle | 2004–2006, 2009–2010[79] | ||||
| Terry Ward | Honduras | c. 1987-1989[80] | |||
| 2007–2008;[81] | convicted of rape while in station[82] | ||||
| 1972 | Athens 1975;[83] [84] assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N) | ||||
| Terrence L. Williams | Taipei | c. 2003 | under the title of Research and Planning Section Chief, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)[85] | ||
| Joseph Wippl | Berlin | c. 2001-2003[86] | |||
| c. 1959 | formerly DDP 1952–1959[87] | ||||
| c. 1969 | Kabul
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