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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]
Stephen Holmes (also known as Steven Hall) is a CIA officer who, as of 2013, was the Station chief at the Embassy of the United States in Moscow, the top U.S. intelligence representative with Russia. Holmes's identity was revealed on May 17, 2013, by the Russian FSB in retaliation for Ryan Fogle's alleged attempts to recruit agents for the US.
A station chief is a government official who is the head of a team, post or function usually in a foreign country. Historically it commonly referred to the head of a defensible structure such as an ambassador 's residence or colonial outpost.
The third-highest office and highest non-political office of the CIA, which manages day-to-day operations and budget, was known as Executive Director or from July 5, 2006 also as Associate Deputy Director (ADD) [9] and was renamed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the CIA in 2017.
William Francis Buckley (May 30, 1928 – June 3, 1985) was a United States Army officer in the United States Army Special Forces, and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Beirut from 1984 [1] until his kidnapping and execution in 1985. Buckley's cover was as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy.
From 1994 to 1996, he worked under the guise of military attache at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Over time, he was promoted to chief of station in Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, and subsequently chief of Latin America Division.
Later in his career, Schroen served in numerous posts, including chief of station in Kabul, Afghanistan (but based out of Pakistan) in the late 1980s. From 1992 to 1994, he worked at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, controlling counter-Iran operations. He later served as chief of station in Islamabad, Pakistan from 1996 until mid-1999. [2]
Peer de Silva (June 26, 1917 – August 13, 1978) was a station chief in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). A 1941 West Point graduate, during World War II he served as an Army officer providing security for the Manhattan Engineer District; this undercover project sought to build the first atomic bomb.