Jerry O’Shea

Originally from upstate New York, Jerry was afflicted with a severe case of early onset Wanderlust. Leaving home at 18, he lived and studied in Germany, getting by as a waiter, doing construction, and taking odd jobs. An inveterate traveler, he spent years roaming Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. He attended university in Austria, Germany, Mexico, and graduate school in Arizona.

Recruited into CIA, Jerry worked undercover as an operations officer for over three decades. He served, probably not coincidentally, back in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and in the Middle East as well as in numerous war zones. A four-time Chief of Station running some of CIA’s largest and most critical missions abroad, he has relished the challenge of service to a greater good in the gray, blurred, and bleary borderlands between good and evil, right and wrong.