Matthew "Matt" Graver (1968-) was an American CIA officer. Graver specialized in combating Mexican drug cartels along the US-Mexico border, and, in 2015, he was entrusted with leading a CIA-FBI joint task force targeting the Sonora Cartel. Graver recruited former Colombian sicario Alejandro Gillick to help with the operation, which had a secret objective of restoring the drug trade to being a more orderly, Colombian-run industry. Graver and Gillick's tactics led to protests from FBI agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne, but the operation ultimately succeeded in neutralizing Sonora's number-three Fausto Alarcon and the cartel's chief of US operations Manuel Diaz. In 2018, Graver's service took him to Somalia, where he investigated Somali pirates' smuggling of Middle Eastern refugees to Mexico on cartel-owned ships. After the 2018 Kansas City bombing, Graver led a covert mission to instigate a war between Sonora and the Gulf Cartel, and, while the mission was called off after it was revealed that two of the suicide bombers were American-born and were thus not smuggled into the country, he helped rescue Gillick when he went rogue to continue the mission.
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