Background
On June 20, 1970, Helge Boes was born to Roderich and Monika Boes in Hamburg, Germany.
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Boes attended John F. Kennedy School, a German-American elementary and high school, graduating in 1989.
Career
In 1972, the family moved to West Berlin. In 1989, Boes moved to Kennesaw, Georgia and enrolled at Georgia State University. He graduated summa cum laude in 1992.
He then entered Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude in 1997.
Helge worked as an attorney with Latham & Watkins until January, 2001, when he decided to join the Central Intelligence Agency. There, he worked as an operations officer in the Counterterrorist Center. Boes was killed while participating in United States counterterrorism efforts in eastern Afghanistan.
He was taking part in a live-fire exercise when a grenade detonated prematurely, killing him and wounding two others He was the second Central Intelligence Agency officer to die as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the first being paramilitary officer Mike Spann on November 25, 2001.
