Raiole latest in a long list of CIA station chiefs revealed to the media… Identities of CIA station chiefs are no big secret… Much ado is being made of the White House mistakenly releasing the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul to the White House press pool reporters who re-sent the list to some 6000 reporters. The email was sent during President Obamas surprise visit to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan… The email sent by The Washington Posts White House reporter Scott Wilson was later amended with the name of station Mike Raiole deleted. Critics of the Obama administration are attempting to make political hay out of the disclosure of Raioles name. There was also a rather pathetic attempt by the corporate media, including the Washington Post, Reuters, and the cable news networks, to display a form of bizarre patriotism by congratulating themselves on withholding Raioles name from publication or broadcasting… Some administration critics suggested that the revelation of Raioles name was akin to members of the George W. Bush administration revealing the identity of CIA clandestine agent Valerie Plame Wilson to the press. There is a fundamental difference. Raiole is a declared member of the U.S. embassy staff in Kabul. Anyone with even a surface knowledge of diplomatic protocol and intelligence can figure out the CIA station chief from local gossip and media accounts in any country in the world. Plame, on the other hand, was an active non-official cover officer for the CIA. Her cover as a CIA agent working for a private consulting company, Brewster Jennings and Associates, was blown by the Bush administration. Raiole is not the first CIA chief of station in South Asia to have his identity revealed. None other than former CIA director George Tenet revealed the name of the Kabul station chief in his memoir, At the Center of the Storm. Tenet referred to the Kabul station chief as Greg V. In fact, it was Gregory Vogel, whose diplomatic cover was Regional Affairs officer at the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Vogel also used the cover names of Craig, Casper, Spider, and the Wolf. A number of CIA agents were identified after they were killed in a terrorist attack by an infiltrator at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan in 2009… They were: Jennifer Lynne Matthews CIA, Chief of Base Scott Michael Roberson CIA, Base security chief Darren LaBonte CIA, Amman Station case officer Elizabeth Hanson CIA, Kabul Station targeter Harold Brown Jr. CIA, case officer Dane Clark Paresi CIA, security contractor Jeremy Wise CIA, security contractor Sharif Ali bin Zeid Jordanian intelligence officer assigned to work with the CIA&MOSSAD....lol Three CIA station chiefs at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan were revealed in three years. Repeated CIA drone strikes against civilians in Pakistan resulted in the outing of the agents by local political leaders and the press. The three station chiefs are: Craig Peters Osth COS Islamabad (Office of Regional Affairs, US embassy) (2013); former COS Brasilia (1999); COS Bogota (2011). Jonathan Banks COS Islamabad (2010) Mark Carlton COS Islamabad (2011) Raymond Davis Regional Office of Security contractor for COS; assigned to U.S. Consulate Lahore... A number of former CIA station chiefs have revealed their identities in books and have been identified in news articles. These include Graham Fuller (Kabul), Cofer Black (Khartoum), Jeffrey Castelli (Rome), Robert Grenier (Islamabad), Stephen Holmes (Moscow), Stephen Kappes (Moscow, New Delhi, and Frankfurt), Bill Murray (Paris), James Pavitt (Luxembourg), Jose Rodriguez (Panama City, Mexico City, and Santo Domingo), Andrew Warren (Algiers), and Eloise Page (Athens). No big secret: CIA station chiefs might as well put this emblem on their front doors. In addition, the now-defunct Covert Action Information Bulletin routinely published the names of CIA chiefs of station. In October 1979, it revealed the following chiefs of station: George H. Hazelrigg, COS, Bujumbura, Burundi, former chief of base Kaduna, Nigeria and COS Bamako, Mali Robert T. Dumaine, COS, Helsinki N. Richard Kinsman, COS, Kingston, Jamaica, former deputy COS, Lima John S. Habib, COS Rabat, Morocco, former COS in Kuwait and Doha Robert L. Fambrini, COS Managua, Nicaragua William E. Camp III, COS Oslo Gerald Thompson Sloane, COS Ouagadougou, Upper Volta Kenneth Leroy Hurley, Chief of Base, Blantyre, Malawi Richard Rauh, COS, Colombo, Sri Lanka CIA Chiefs of Station are not a top secret. Many can be identified in diplomatic lists provided by various foreign ministries. However, they usually are identified in local news reports because of one major factor: a lack of operational security by the CIA station chiefs themselves… ---------------- From: Wilson, Scott W [mailto:Scott.Wilson@washpost] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 09:22 PM To: Tiller, Jeff; Maska, Johanna Subject: Pool 1 – Fix Among several typos in first pool report, the most egregious was spelling General Joseph F. Dunford’s name wrong. Please excuse. To be clear correct spelling: Gen Joseph F. Dunford Jr. Also, here is the manifest of those in POTUS military briefing, now underway: President Obama Ambassador Cunningham General Dunford Susan Rice, National Security Advisor John Podesta, Counselor to the President Ben Rhodes, Dep. National Security Advisor Jeff Eggers, Senior Dir. for Afghanistan and Pakistan CMSgt Kaleth Wright Maj Gen John McMullen CMS Ledford “JR” Stigall MG Austin Miller CSM Isaia Vimoto LTG Joseph Anderson SgtMaj James Booker Mike Raiole, Chief of Station…lol Ambassador David Robinson, Assistant Chief of Mission Scott Wilson…lol White House Bureau Chief The Washington Post Office: Mobile: Email: Scott.Wilson@washpost Twitter: @PostScottWilson HK
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