CIA/Latin American Division/Mexico City Station/Chief
 CIA/Latin American Division/Mexico City Station/Chief(CIA station chief) | |
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| The CIA's Chief of Station for Mexico City, Mexico |
The CIA's Chief of Station for the CIA/Latin American Division/Mexico City Station, working under diplomatic cover from the US embassy in Mexico City.[1]
Selected Examples
Every COS from 1947 until 1969 had been a former FBI agent.[2]
- William H. Doyle the first COS, from April 1947 until February 1951.
- Raymond J. O'Mara became chief of the station in 1951.
- Winston M. Scott was station chief from 1965 to 1969.
- Richard Sampson was chief in 1974.[3]
In 1981 Covert Action Information Bulletin reproted that "the former CIA Chief of Station Thomas Polgar had been replaced by Lawrence Melvin Sternfield. Recently, on November 25, 1980, Excelsior, a leading Mexico City daily, noted that Sternfield had departed and was replaced as Chef of Station by Stewart D. Burton, who arrived there in October 1978 and took over as CoS when Sternfield departed. Burton’s biography appears in “Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe,” which notes his lengthy service, with postings in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Aregentina; Curitiba, Brazil; Georgetown, British Guiana; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lima, Peru; Santiago, Chile; and Brasilia, Brazil; before his move to Mexico.
According to Excelsior’s well-informed columnist, Manuel Buendía, Burton was “sent to Mexico by George Bush with special orders to carry out several dynamitings, kidnappings, and finally the necessary murders."" The article states that the U.S. has a total of some 450 staff members at the Mexico City Embassy and in eleven consular offices throughout the country, making it certain that Burton at present is overseeing a very large CIA Station."[4]
Office Holders on Wikispooks
| Name | From | To | Boss | Deputy | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Rodriguez | 1999 | 2001 | |||
| Jose Rodriguez | 1993 | 1994 | Dates uncertain. In he early-mid 1990s. Became Chief again in 1999. | ||
| James Olson | 1987 | 1989 | |||
| Stewart Burton | 1978 | 1981 | "Sent to Mexico by George Bush with special orders to carry out several dynamitings, kidnappings, and finally the necessary murders." | ||
| Lawrence Sternfield | 1977 | 1978 | "There was absolutely no mention of human rights while I was there. Not one word was spoken about it with my counterparts. It wasn't something that we broached or they broached." | ||
| Richard Sampson | 1971 | 1974 | Not confirmed | ||
| James Noland | 1969 | 1969 | "left suddenly", in what could be interpreted as a break by the Mexican president with the CIA | ||
| John Horton | 1969 | 1971 | After "an abrupt change of Chief" |
References
- ↑ One researcher has the succession as: 48-??-; ?? -??-; ?? -57-; 57-68- Winston M. Scott; 68-69- James B. Noland; 69-71- John R. Horton; 71-74- Richard A. Sampson; 74-75-; 75-77- Thomas Polgar; 77-78- Lawrence M. Sternfield; 78-80- Stewart D Burton; 80-82- Francis C. McDonald; 82-85- Albert D. Wedemeyer; 85-87- Thomas A. Brunton; 87-89- James M. Olson; 89-93- Morton M. Palmer; 93-?? -; ??-98 -; 98-01- Jose A. Rodriguez; 01-03- Michael P. Morgan; 03-05- Emily E. Jeffers https://archive.is/wip/D2S1h
- ↑ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/33044-document-9-house-select-committee-assassinations-mexico-city-station-history-200
- ↑ Philip Agee Dirty Work, page 43
- ↑ Special Technology Issue by Covert Action Information Bulletin, No 9 (Jun 1980) https://archive.org/details/cia-rdp-90-00845-r-000100190004-3/page/42/mode/2up
