Charles G. "Chuck" Cogan (January 11, 1928 – December 14, 2017)^[1] was an American academic and intelligence officer who served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1954 to 1991.^[2]

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.^[3]

From 2006 until his death, he was an associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.^[4] 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)^[5] and Paris station chief (1984–1989).^[6] 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.^[3]

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• 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.