Biography

Jason Matthews is a retired officer of the CIA's Operations Directorate. Over a thirty-three-year career, he served in multiple overseas locations and engaged in clandestine collection of national security intelligence, specializing in denied-area operations. Matthews conducted recruitment operations against Soviet-East European, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Caribbean targets. As Chief in various CIA Stations, he collaborated with foreign partners in counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism operations. He lives in Southern California.
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He met his future wife, who was also in the CIA, on an overseas assignment.

He studied Spanish and French at Washington & Lee University, and received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Being in the agency is a very experiential career, like being a policeman or a fireman or a jet pilot, and when it stops, it really stops. There are retiree groups that get together, mostly in Washington, and sit around and swap war stories, but I was living in California, and it was either write something or go fishing. [on becoming a writer after retiring from the CIA]