Charles Cogan
{{Short description|American academic and intelligence officer}}
{{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
Central Intelligence Agency
Directorate of Operations
| discipline = International affairs
Strategic studies
| birth_place = Melrose, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
}}
Charles G. "Chuck" Cogan (January 11, 1928 – December 14, 2017){{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}} was an American academic and intelligence officer who served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1954 to 1991.{{Cite web|title=Home|url=http://www.drcharlesgcogan.net/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=www.drcharlesgcogan.net}}
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.{{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}}
From 2006 until his death, he was an associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.{{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}} 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)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 and Paris station chief (1984–1989).{{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}} 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.
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}}.
References
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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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Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour
Category:People from Melrose, Massachusetts
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Category:People of the Central Intelligence Agency