Madrid Chief of Station
 Madrid Chief of Station(CIA Chief of Station) | |
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| The CIA Chief of Station in Madrid, Spain |
The CIA Chief of Station in Madrid, Spain
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In our April 1979 issue, we described in some detail the CIA station in Madrid, Spain. We noted that the position of Chief of Station had been held by Robert D. Gahagen till 1976, when he was replaced by his Deputy Dean J. Almy, Jr., until 1977, when Nestor D. Sanchez took over. We have now learned that shortly after our article, which was reprinted in a Spanish magazine, Sanchez left and was replaced as Chief of Station by Ronald Edward Estes, Estes, born June 28, 1931 in Washington, DC, whose full biography appears in Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe, served under deep cover from 1957 to 1962. Since then, under diplomatic cover, he has served in Nicosia, Cyprus; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Headquarters; Beirut, Lebanon; and Athens, Greece. The January 1980 Madrid Diplomatic List indicates that he arrived in Madrid in July 1979, as Attache, and, in fact, Nestor Sanchez's replacement as Chief of Station.[1]
An Office Holder on Wikispooks
| Name | From | To |
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| Ron Estes (spook) | 1979 | 1981 |
