Former Cal Athlete, Gold Medal Winner, CIA Operative Has Died
This sounds like a real interesting guy. From the SF Chronicle:

U.S. Olympic gold medalist and longtime CIA agent Hans Jorgens Jensen has died in a Riverside County hospital. He was 79.

Jensen learned to row at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1940s. He raced in the eight-man shell composed of Cal rowers that won gold in England during the 1948 Olympic Games.

His Olympic jacket still hangs in the Cal boathouse as a source of inspiration to the hundreds of young rowers who train with UC Berkeley's medal-winning teams.

Jensen trained as an aviator at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida during World War II and returned to Berkeley after the war to graduate in 1949...

His Scandinavian heritage helped him land a job with the Central Intelligence Agency as a Scandinavian specialist. His family traveled with him to secret assignments in Denmark, Norway and West Germany. Over the 30-year period he worked for the CIA, he used a cover, telling people he worked as a foreign service officer or political attache.

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