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	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
Joseph F. Fernandez	Costa Rica	1985-1986	Indicted (charges were dropped in the Iran Contra Scandal 1988-1989. [34]
Desmond Fitzgerald	Manila	1955–1956[35]
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[36]
Clair George	Athens	c. 1976-1979
Burton Gerber	Moscow	1980–1982[37]
Robert L. Grenier	Algiers	c. 1990;	Islamabad 1999–2001[12]
Jerry "Jay" Gruner	Geneva,then Paris	(1986-1988), (1989–1993)
Howard Hart	Islamabad	1981–1984	Tehran 1978; Germany
John L. Hart	Saigon	c. 1965,[38] c. 1966[39]
Gina Haspel	Azerbaijan	c. 1996–1998	London c. 2008–2011, 2014–2017
Gardner Hathaway	Moscow	1977–1980[40]
Paul B. Henze	Ankara; Addis Ababa[41]	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[42][43][44]
Robert Jantzen	Bangkok	c. 1959–1966[45][46]
Gordon L. Jorgensen	Laos	c. 1960	Saigon 1966–c. 1968[47]
George Kalaris	Brazil	c. 1972
Stephen Kappes	Moscow	1996–1999	New Delhi; Frankfurt[48]
Robert Kandra	Baghdad[49]	c. 2006
Mark Kelton	Islamabad	2010–2011[10]
Paul Kolbe	Moscow[50]	c. 2004-2006	Chief of Central Eurasian Division 2007–2009;
Andrew Kim	Seoul[51]
John Lapham	Saigon	c. 1966[52]
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen	Moscow	c.1994, 2000[53]
James Lawler	Zurich	c. 1991-1994[54]
Jennifer Matthews	Khost	2009	Killed in the Camp Chapman attack[12] (Chief of Base, not COS)
Stuart Methven	Kinshasa	1975[55]
Hendrik Van Der Meulen	Amman	c. 2002[56]
Cord Meyer	London	1973–1976[57]
William Lyle Moseby	C.A.R. (Bangui)[58]	c. 1980
David Murphy	Berlin	1959	Paris 1967[59]
Bill Murray	Paris	2001–2004[60]
Herbert W. Natzke	Philippines	c. 1979[31]
William Nelson	Taipei	1962-1965	[7]: 105, 108
William Ross Newland III	Buenos Aires	c. 2000-2001[61]
Duyane Norman	Brazil	2017[62][63][64]
Birch O'Neill	Guatemala	1953
Craig P. Osth	Rio de Janeiro	c. 1999	Islamabad c. 2013
Eloise Page	Athens[65]	1970s [66]	First female station chief
Richard L. Palmer[67]	Moscow	1992–1994[68][69]
James Pavitt	Luxembourg	1983–1986
David Atlee Phillips	Santo Domingo	1965–1967	Brasília 1970–1972[70]
Henry Pleasants	Bern	1950–1956;[71]	Bonn, Germany, 1956–1964[72]
Thomas Polgar	Frankfurt	1949	Saigon, 1972–1975[71][73]
Phillip F. Reilly	Kabul	c. 2003	Manila c. 2008[74]
Robert Richer	Amman	c. 2000	2002-2004 Chief of the Near East/South Asia Division[75]
Jose Rodriguez	Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic[76]
John R. Sano	Seoul[77]		Chief of East Asia Division 2004–2005;
Winston M. Scott	London	1947–1950	Mexico City 1956–1969
Charles Seidel	Cairo[78]	c. 2000–2002	Baghdad 2002–2003; Amman 2003–2005
Gerry Meyer			Baghdad, around August 2003 to January 2004[79]
Theodore Shackley	Laos	1966–1968	Saigon 1968–1972[80]
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[81]
Hugh Tovar	Malaysia and Indonesia	1960s	Laos and Thailand 1970s;[82] Vientiane, Laos beginning in May 1973 [6]
Greg Vogle	Kabul	2004–2006, 2009–2010[83]
Terry Ward	Honduras	c. 1987-1989[84]
Andrew Warren	Algeria	2007–2008;[85]	convicted of rape while in station[86]
Richard Welch	Lima	1972	Athens 1975;[87][88] assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N)
Terrence L. Williams	Taipei	c. 2003[89]	under the title of Research and Planning Section Chief, American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)[89]
Joseph Wippl	Berlin	c. 2001-2003[90]
Frank Wisner	London	c. 1959	formerly DDP 1952–1959[91]
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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