CIA officer remembered in Georgia

ATLANTA - A CIA officer who was killed in Afghanistan is being remembered in Georgia as a former college soccer player and good student. <br> <br> At 6 feet and 160 pounds, Helge Boes was a freshman walk-on at Georgia State University and made the varsity team in 1989. <br> <br> ``He was a decent-sized kid with some pretty good skills,&#39;&#39; Hugh Beasley, his GSU coach, recalled Thursday night. <br> <br> Boes, a mid-fielder, played only his freshman year. He yearned for more playing time, so he turned to local soccer clubs, continued as a student, graduated from Georgia State, won a place at Harvard University Law School and later joined the Central Intelligence Agency. <br> <br> In 1991, Boes was named player of the week in the Atlanta District Amateur Soccer League after scoring four goals. <br> <br> ``He seemed like a serious, intelligent young man,&#39;&#39; said Beasley. ``I hadn&#39;t seen nor heard from the guy in years.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Boes, 32, was killed and two others were injured in a training accident in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. Officials said a grenade detonated prematurely during a live-fire exercise. <br> <br> The training was in preparation for an unspecified intelligence collection operation. <br> <br> Boes, who lived in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, was an operations officer assigned to the CIA&#39;s Counterterrorism Center.

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