Chief of station of the CIA

The chief of station of the CIA ( Chief off station , COS) is an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, generally tested, which is charged to direct under diplomatic cover of the Ambassade of the the United States the activities of the CIA in a Capitale given.

Role

The chief of station is more the high representative of the CIA in the country given, he is in charge of the collection of the information in this country by the “open” methods (for example reading of the press) or clandestine (listenings, recruitments), or against the adjoining countries (for example, the station of the CIA with Riyadh is also useful has to work against Iran) according to the directives of the geographical Division on which it depends. The chiefs of station have also the possibility of sending to the district of the “Aardwolf”, reports/ratios describing the situation in the country.

The role of the chiefs of station of the CIA was still reinforced within the representations of the American secret services abroad by a directive of the Directeur of the national information (DNI) John Negroponte in date of May 2005, which indicates that the chiefs of station must represent at the local level the DNI, on the one hand, and on the other hand must refer to him about it if a put question relates to several intelligence services.

The officers of the CIA who direct a team in the American Consulat S are called the basic chiefs (COB).

Organization

One counts 5 geographical divisions with the CIA (Eurasia, which includes/understands inter alia several countries of the ex-USSR; Western Europe; the Middle East and South Asia; Latin America; the Far East), each one thus has stations of the CIA in the capitals of the countries which it supervises.

To fill its task, the COS has an assistant ( Deputy chief off station , DCOS) as well as officers treating, analysts, experts in communications, secretaries, with more or less important manpower according to the station and its objectives. For example, the antenna of the CIA with Moscow counted in the middle of the years 1980 between 8 and 12 officers, that of Paris 70.

Generally, an officer of the CIA is chief of station in a country given only for one duration of 2-3 years; then, it is transferred elsewhere.

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