{{Short description|American academic and intelligence officer}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Chuck Cogan | birth_name = Charles G. Cogan | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|1|11}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|12|14|1928|1|11}} | education = Harvard University (AB, DPA) | workplaces = Harvard University<br>Central Intelligence Agency<br>Directorate of Operations | discipline = International affairs<br>Strategic studies | birth_place = Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. }}
'''Charles G. "Chuck" Cogan''' (January 11, 1928 – December 14, 2017)<ref>{{cite web|title=CHARLES COGAN's Obituary on New York Times|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=charles-cogan&pid=187619794|website=New York Times}}</ref> was an American academic and intelligence officer who served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1954 to 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home|url=http://www.drcharlesgcogan.net/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=www.drcharlesgcogan.net}}</ref>
== Background == Cogan was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Harvard University and served in the United States Army during the Korean War.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Charles Cogan Obituary (2017) - New York Times|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/nytimes/187619794|access-date=December 4, 2020|website=www.legacy.com|language=en}}</ref>
From 2006 until his death, he was an associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Charles G. Cogan|url=https://www.belfercenter.org/person/charles-g-cogan|access-date=December 4, 2020|website=Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs|date=January 3, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> At the CIA, Cogan's roles included chief of the Near East and South Asia Division in the CIA's Directorate of Operations (1979–1984)<ref>Charles Cogan, [https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_military_history/v067/67.1cogan.html Desert One and Its Disorders], ''The Journal of Military History'' 67.1 (2003) 201-216</ref> and Paris station chief (1984–1989).<ref name="atlantico">{{cite web|website=atlantico.fr |url=http://www.atlantico.fr/users/charles-cogan |title=Account, Charles Cogan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200216/http://www.atlantico.fr/users/charles-cogan |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1992 with a Doctor of Public Administration degree.
Cogan died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2017.<ref name=":0" />
==Books== * ''Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: the United States and France Since 1940'', Praeger 1994, {{ISBN|0-275-95116-2}}. * ''Charles de Gaulle: A Brief Biography with Documents'', Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996, {{ISBN|0-312-12804-5}}. * ''Forced to Choose: France, the Atlantic Alliance, and NATO - Then and Now'', Praeger, 1997, {{ISBN|0-275-95704-7}}. * ''The Third Option: the Emancipation of European Defense, 1989-2000'', Praeger, 2001, {{ISBN|0-275-96948-7}}. * ''French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with La Grande Nation'' (USIP Press, 2003). * ''La République de Dieu'', Editions Jacob-Duvernet, 2008, {{ISBN|978-2-84724-183-9}}.
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|nm1468001}} * [http://www.drcharlesgcogan.net/ www.drcharlesgcogan.net] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110032104/http://irice.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article414 Charles Cogan]
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