Station Chief

Station Chief is a term for certain officials who are appointed as chief of a 'station', i.e. a stationary post, of various natures.

Colonial

In English, a description for the factor of a colonial 'factory' (i.e settlement and/or garrison), while a formal station can already have a factor in charge (as in the British East India Company's 1603 established English station Bantam, which in March 1609 formally became a Factory, but remained under a Chief factor until its promotion in 1617 to Presidency of Bantam)

Furthermore as close rendering of the German equivalent Stationsleiter ('station leader'), notably in South Sea Schutzgebiete (colonial possessions).

Finally it occurs as loose rendering of the Dutch and Danish equivalents, Opperhoofd viz. Opperhoved.

CIA

A CIA official, also called Chief of Station, equivalent to a KGB Resident. Those who have been known to be Station Chiefs include:

• Cofer Black: Khartoum, Sudan from 1993 to 1995
• Larry Devlin: Congo in 1960 and 1961.
• Stephen Kappes: Moscow, New Dehli and Frankfurt^[1]
• William Nelson: Taiwan in 1963
• Henry Pleasants, Bern, Switzerland, 1950 to 1956^[2]; Bonn, Germany , 1956 to 1964^[3]
• Thomas Polgar: Frankfurt, 1949, Saigon, starting in 1972 to 1975^[2]
• Jose Rodriguez: Panama, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.^[4]
• Theodore Shackley: Laos, 1966 to 1968, Saigon 1968 to 1972
• John Stockwell: Katanga in 1968, Burundi in 1970.
• Andrew Warren: Algeria in 2007-8,^[5] accused of rape.
• Richard Welch: Greece in 1975,^[6] assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N).

Other

• Manager of a scientific (research) station, e.g. for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) on Jarvis Island, an uninhabited minor U.S. Pacific island possession

1. ^ Mayer, Jane (2009), "The Secret History", The New Yorker, 22 June 2009, pg 54.
2. ^ ^{a b} James H. Critchfield: Partners at Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003. x + 243 pp, ISBN 1-59114-136-2.
3. ^ Kelly, Bill (2008-11-04). "Felix Leiter = Henry Pleasants". http://jamesbondauthenticus.blogspot.com/2008/11/felix-leiter-henry-pleasants.html. Retrieved 2011-11-29. 
4. ^ "Tape Inquiry: Ex-Spymaster in the Middle.". New York Times. February 20, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/washington/20intel.html?hp. Retrieved 2011-01-09. "serving from Peru to Belize and heading the C.I.A. stations in Panama, the Dominican Republic and Mexico" 
5. ^ ROSS, BRIAN (2009-01-28). "Exclusive: CIA Station Chief in Algeria Accused of Rapes". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=6750266&page=1. Retrieved 2011-01-09. 
6. ^ Greek Assassins Arrested "Weekly Intelligence Notes #31-02". Association of Former Intelligence Officers. 5 August 2002. http://www.afio.com/sections/wins/2002/2002-31.html#Greek_Assassins Greek Assassins Arrested. Retrieved 2011-01-09. "The third of the Greek terrorists accused of the assassination of CIA Station Chief Richard S. Welch in 1975 has been arrested"