Records show that Olson led a complicated love life that could have left him vulnerable to blackmail. AdvertisementBut emails submitted to the court indicate that the ambassador and the journalist still had feelings for each other. Jennifer McKewan, a State Department spokesperson, declined to comment on Olson’s case. While Olson was ambassador to Pakistan, he was also fending off a State Department investigation about a different matter. Olson’s then-wife, Deborah Jones, was based in Washington at the time as a senior State Department official, overseeing the Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs.
