Karen Bowman (1 March 1975-) was an American CIA officer who served as the lead contact for the Ghost Recon team sent to take part in Operation Kingslayer in Bolivia in 2019.
Biography[]
Karen Bowman was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York in 1975, and she was raised by a single mother. She served in the US Air Force and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant before leaving the service, and she was recruited as a CIA case officer shortly afterward. Bowman was posted worldwide under different aliases, and she witnessed Dmitri Arbatov's failed coup in Russia in 2008. During the 2010s, CIA agent Daniel Sykes recommended Bowman to Ghost Recon for future black ops missions, and she was sent to Bolivia in 2014 to gather intelligence on the Santa Blanca Cartel while posing as an international aid worker. Five years later, in 2019, the murder of her DEA colleague and friend Ricky Sandoval led the United States to dispatch a Ghost Recon outfit to Bolivia, where Bowman served as their lead contact and put them in touch with the Kataris 26 revolutionary movement. Bowman remained committed to the operation even after learning that Sandoval had secretly arranged for the US embassy in La Paz to be bombed in order to attract US military attention to Bolivia, and she and her team captured the Santa Muerte leader Rodrigo Carlos Pérez Morales, whom Bowman intended to kill before her superiors revealed that the cartel boss had formed a deal with the Department of Justice. Shortly after, Bolivia worked with the Ghosts to shut down Santa Blanca's smuggling network, run by El Invisible. Her identity was compromised after El Invisible unleashed a massive data breach, and she was sent back to the United States, from which she coordinated the Ghosts' operation against the Los Extranjeros gang.