—Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon
December 6, 2012
Garrett Jones
ELMIRA — Garrett R. Jones of Elmira died Nov. 24 of heart failure. He was 62.
He was born March 28, 1950, in Louisville, Ky., to Garrett and Ramona Vergne Jones.
He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of South Florida in 1972 and received a diploma from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in 1993. He worked as an undercover police officer for the Miami-Dade Police Department for five years and worked as a case agent for the CIA for 17 years.
Survivors include his domestic partner, Jeri Christian of Eugene; his mother, Ramona Jones of Miami, Fla.; and a sister, Yolanda Bosworth of St. Johns, Fla.
Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene.
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—Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon
December 9, 2012
Garrett Ralph Jones
1950-2012
Some stories demand to be told. Garrett Jones's is one of them.
For 15 years he lived quietly in Elmira, Oregon helping his neighbors, planting his garden, battling the deer and the moles for territorial rights. Prior to his move to Oregon, Jones's battles were far more deadly.
Consider these basic facts, matters of public record, some classified and some not:
In the seventies, Jones played a high-rolling drug buyer wearing white suits and shoes with no socks, living on a sailboat in a marina in Miami, busting a major ring of drug lords at great personal cost. Sound familiar? Think Sonny Crocket in Miami Vice - except Jones didn't have an alligator living on his boat.
His next job? Helping to bring down a total of 29 corrupt cops in the Miami-Dade Police Department, including the #4 cop in the department. His thanks? Living in hiding for eight months with a $50,000 price on his head until the case came to trial, answering each knock on the door with a gun in his hand. Sound familiar? Check out the pilot show for Miami Vice.
His reward? Required relocation and a life-altering career change - to the CIA where, after training, he was sworn in on November 5, 1979, the day after the embassy fell in Tehran. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, working in all levels of intelligence. He also served in several multiagency paramilitary operations as the senior on the ground Agency Officer.
An example? Think Black Hawk Down, a movie based on the true story of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Jones served as the CIA's chief of station. There his life was irreparably altered. "In 14 years with the agency, he'd never seen his deputy shot, or taken mortar fire night after night, or watched a firefight engulf a city, or seen his buddies in the U.S. military maimed and killed." (Vernon Loeb, "After-Action Report," The Washington Post Magazine, Feb.27, 2000). In Mogadishu, all that changed.
The fallout from those days-political, physical and emotional (PTSD and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, among others)-led to his disability early retirement in 1997. His work did not stop there, of course. He continued his commitment to making a difference by contributing to and writing for a think tank, the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was also published in academic journals such as Parameters and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times.
In his spare time, he worked on his novel/screenplay for a series called Cape Cross, a dark comedy based on some of his more surreal experiences working in Africa. Whether it will be picked up by a major television station remains to be seen, although he had already been flown to Hollywood to discuss the possibilities.
A lifetime of possibilities was cut short when Garrett Jones died of a sudden heart attack at age 62 on Saturday, November 24, 2012, in Sacred Heart at RiverBend Hospital in Springfield, Oregon. Born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 28, 1950, he is survived by his mother, Ramona Vergne Jones; and his sister, Yolanda Jones Bosworth, both of Florida; and his significant other, Jeri Cary Christian of Eugene, Oregon.
His life will be celebrated every day by those who knew and loved him. A private celebration service is planned for a later date.
Eugene, Oregon
December 6, 2012
Garrett Jones
ELMIRA — Garrett R. Jones of Elmira died Nov. 24 of heart failure. He was 62.
He was born March 28, 1950, in Louisville, Ky., to Garrett and Ramona Vergne Jones.
He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of South Florida in 1972 and received a diploma from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in 1993. He worked as an undercover police officer for the Miami-Dade Police Department for five years and worked as a case agent for the CIA for 17 years.
Survivors include his domestic partner, Jeri Christian of Eugene; his mother, Ramona Jones of Miami, Fla.; and a sister, Yolanda Bosworth of St. Johns, Fla.
Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene.
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—Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon
December 9, 2012
Garrett Ralph Jones
1950-2012
Some stories demand to be told. Garrett Jones's is one of them.
For 15 years he lived quietly in Elmira, Oregon helping his neighbors, planting his garden, battling the deer and the moles for territorial rights. Prior to his move to Oregon, Jones's battles were far more deadly.
Consider these basic facts, matters of public record, some classified and some not:
In the seventies, Jones played a high-rolling drug buyer wearing white suits and shoes with no socks, living on a sailboat in a marina in Miami, busting a major ring of drug lords at great personal cost. Sound familiar? Think Sonny Crocket in Miami Vice - except Jones didn't have an alligator living on his boat.
His next job? Helping to bring down a total of 29 corrupt cops in the Miami-Dade Police Department, including the #4 cop in the department. His thanks? Living in hiding for eight months with a $50,000 price on his head until the case came to trial, answering each knock on the door with a gun in his hand. Sound familiar? Check out the pilot show for Miami Vice.
His reward? Required relocation and a life-altering career change - to the CIA where, after training, he was sworn in on November 5, 1979, the day after the embassy fell in Tehran. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, working in all levels of intelligence. He also served in several multiagency paramilitary operations as the senior on the ground Agency Officer.
An example? Think Black Hawk Down, a movie based on the true story of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Jones served as the CIA's chief of station. There his life was irreparably altered. "In 14 years with the agency, he'd never seen his deputy shot, or taken mortar fire night after night, or watched a firefight engulf a city, or seen his buddies in the U.S. military maimed and killed." (Vernon Loeb, "After-Action Report," The Washington Post Magazine, Feb.27, 2000). In Mogadishu, all that changed.
The fallout from those days-political, physical and emotional (PTSD and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, among others)-led to his disability early retirement in 1997. His work did not stop there, of course. He continued his commitment to making a difference by contributing to and writing for a think tank, the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was also published in academic journals such as Parameters and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times.
In his spare time, he worked on his novel/screenplay for a series called Cape Cross, a dark comedy based on some of his more surreal experiences working in Africa. Whether it will be picked up by a major television station remains to be seen, although he had already been flown to Hollywood to discuss the possibilities.
A lifetime of possibilities was cut short when Garrett Jones died of a sudden heart attack at age 62 on Saturday, November 24, 2012, in Sacred Heart at RiverBend Hospital in Springfield, Oregon. Born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 28, 1950, he is survived by his mother, Ramona Vergne Jones; and his sister, Yolanda Jones Bosworth, both of Florida; and his significant other, Jeri Cary Christian of Eugene, Oregon.
His life will be celebrated every day by those who knew and loved him. A private celebration service is planned for a later date.
—Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon
December 6, 2012
Garrett Jones
ELMIRA — Garrett R. Jones of Elmira died Nov. 24 of heart failure. He was 62.
He was born March 28, 1950, in Louisville, Ky., to Garrett and Ramona Vergne Jones.
He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of South Florida in 1972 and received a diploma from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in 1993. He worked as an undercover police officer for the Miami-Dade Police Department for five years and worked as a case agent for the CIA for 17 years.
Survivors include his domestic partner, Jeri Christian of Eugene; his mother, Ramona Jones of Miami, Fla.; and a sister, Yolanda Bosworth of St. Johns, Fla.
Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene.
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—Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon
December 9, 2012
Garrett Ralph Jones
1950-2012
Some stories demand to be told. Garrett Jones's is one of them.
For 15 years he lived quietly in Elmira, Oregon helping his neighbors, planting his garden, battling the deer and the moles for territorial rights. Prior to his move to Oregon, Jones's battles were far more deadly.
Consider these basic facts, matters of public record, some classified and some not:
In the seventies, Jones played a high-rolling drug buyer wearing white suits and shoes with no socks, living on a sailboat in a marina in Miami, busting a major ring of drug lords at great personal cost. Sound familiar? Think Sonny Crocket in Miami Vice - except Jones didn't have an alligator living on his boat.
His next job? Helping to bring down a total of 29 corrupt cops in the Miami-Dade Police Department, including the #4 cop in the department. His thanks? Living in hiding for eight months with a $50,000 price on his head until the case came to trial, answering each knock on the door with a gun in his hand. Sound familiar? Check out the pilot show for Miami Vice.
His reward? Required relocation and a life-altering career change - to the CIA where, after training, he was sworn in on November 5, 1979, the day after the embassy fell in Tehran. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, working in all levels of intelligence. He also served in several multiagency paramilitary operations as the senior on the ground Agency Officer.
An example? Think Black Hawk Down, a movie based on the true story of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Jones served as the CIA's chief of station. There his life was irreparably altered. "In 14 years with the agency, he'd never seen his deputy shot, or taken mortar fire night after night, or watched a firefight engulf a city, or seen his buddies in the U.S. military maimed and killed." (Vernon Loeb, "After-Action Report," The Washington Post Magazine, Feb.27, 2000). In Mogadishu, all that changed.
The fallout from those days-political, physical and emotional (PTSD and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, among others)-led to his disability early retirement in 1997. His work did not stop there, of course. He continued his commitment to making a difference by contributing to and writing for a think tank, the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was also published in academic journals such as Parameters and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times.
In his spare time, he worked on his novel/screenplay for a series called Cape Cross, a dark comedy based on some of his more surreal experiences working in Africa. Whether it will be picked up by a major television station remains to be seen, although he had already been flown to Hollywood to discuss the possibilities.
A lifetime of possibilities was cut short when Garrett Jones died of a sudden heart attack at age 62 on Saturday, November 24, 2012, in Sacred Heart at RiverBend Hospital in Springfield, Oregon. Born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 28, 1950, he is survived by his mother, Ramona Vergne Jones; and his sister, Yolanda Jones Bosworth, both of Florida; and his significant other, Jeri Cary Christian of Eugene, Oregon.
His life will be celebrated every day by those who knew and loved him. A private celebration service is planned for a later date.
Eugene, Oregon
December 6, 2012
Garrett Jones
ELMIRA — Garrett R. Jones of Elmira died Nov. 24 of heart failure. He was 62.
He was born March 28, 1950, in Louisville, Ky., to Garrett and Ramona Vergne Jones.
He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of South Florida in 1972 and received a diploma from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in 1993. He worked as an undercover police officer for the Miami-Dade Police Department for five years and worked as a case agent for the CIA for 17 years.
Survivors include his domestic partner, Jeri Christian of Eugene; his mother, Ramona Jones of Miami, Fla.; and a sister, Yolanda Bosworth of St. Johns, Fla.
Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene.
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—Register-Guard
Eugene, Oregon
December 9, 2012
Garrett Ralph Jones
1950-2012
Some stories demand to be told. Garrett Jones's is one of them.
For 15 years he lived quietly in Elmira, Oregon helping his neighbors, planting his garden, battling the deer and the moles for territorial rights. Prior to his move to Oregon, Jones's battles were far more deadly.
Consider these basic facts, matters of public record, some classified and some not:
In the seventies, Jones played a high-rolling drug buyer wearing white suits and shoes with no socks, living on a sailboat in a marina in Miami, busting a major ring of drug lords at great personal cost. Sound familiar? Think Sonny Crocket in Miami Vice - except Jones didn't have an alligator living on his boat.
His next job? Helping to bring down a total of 29 corrupt cops in the Miami-Dade Police Department, including the #4 cop in the department. His thanks? Living in hiding for eight months with a $50,000 price on his head until the case came to trial, answering each knock on the door with a gun in his hand. Sound familiar? Check out the pilot show for Miami Vice.
His reward? Required relocation and a life-altering career change - to the CIA where, after training, he was sworn in on November 5, 1979, the day after the embassy fell in Tehran. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, working in all levels of intelligence. He also served in several multiagency paramilitary operations as the senior on the ground Agency Officer.
An example? Think Black Hawk Down, a movie based on the true story of Mogadishu, Somalia, where Jones served as the CIA's chief of station. There his life was irreparably altered. "In 14 years with the agency, he'd never seen his deputy shot, or taken mortar fire night after night, or watched a firefight engulf a city, or seen his buddies in the U.S. military maimed and killed." (Vernon Loeb, "After-Action Report," The Washington Post Magazine, Feb.27, 2000). In Mogadishu, all that changed.
The fallout from those days-political, physical and emotional (PTSD and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, among others)-led to his disability early retirement in 1997. His work did not stop there, of course. He continued his commitment to making a difference by contributing to and writing for a think tank, the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was also published in academic journals such as Parameters and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times.
In his spare time, he worked on his novel/screenplay for a series called Cape Cross, a dark comedy based on some of his more surreal experiences working in Africa. Whether it will be picked up by a major television station remains to be seen, although he had already been flown to Hollywood to discuss the possibilities.
A lifetime of possibilities was cut short when Garrett Jones died of a sudden heart attack at age 62 on Saturday, November 24, 2012, in Sacred Heart at RiverBend Hospital in Springfield, Oregon. Born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 28, 1950, he is survived by his mother, Ramona Vergne Jones; and his sister, Yolanda Jones Bosworth, both of Florida; and his significant other, Jeri Cary Christian of Eugene, Oregon.
His life will be celebrated every day by those who knew and loved him. A private celebration service is planned for a later date.
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