Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Impact Of A Suicide Bombing For A CIA Family

Source: Staff reports. Photos by the Associated Press and courtesy of the Matthews family, the LaBonte family, Mindy Lou Paresi and Dana Wise. Graphic by the Washington Post. Published on January 27, 2012, 7:07 p.m.

For CIA Family, A Deadly Suicide Bombing Leads To Painful Divisions -- Washington Post


The call from the Central Intelligence Agency came on a December afternoon in 2009 while Gary Anderson was skiing with his three children. It’s about your wife, the agency man said.

Standing inside Eagle Rock ski lodge in Pennsylvania, Anderson pleaded for details. The CIA official said simply: Where are you? We’ll meet you.

Anderson suspected dreadful news about Jennifer Matthews, his college sweetheart, his wife of 22 years and a CIA operative on assignment almost 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. With several hours until the CIA meeting, Anderson and his three children — then 12, 9 and 6 — hit the slopes for one more hour. The father wanted to cling a little longer to normalcy, to a life between before and after.

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My Comment: Our prayers are with the families and their loved ones.

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