Paul Burnley

The Carribean Connection Paul Burnley

The miscalculations by our intelligence service in the late 50`s and early 60`s, by assuming that we would never be involved with any non-Caucasian country, because the thought was that no third world countries would ever gain enough power, growth or finances to challenge The U. S. Today, we see how wrong we were. It is understandable the secrecy of our intelligence services is very important, but some data has been withheld from the public, concerning the personnel of those departments. Women and minorities have been a vital part of our intelligence system for years. Yet, the public views agencies such as the C. I. A., F. B. I., and the Secret Service as being exclusively white males. In this novel, it shows the frustrations of a African American agent placed in a position of obtaining information of the utmost importance, but not having the authority to make decisions, some of which could have saved lives, and millions of dollars by our government obtaining information that was improper, or unreliable, do to the lack of knowledge of the culture of the people of that particular area. Had more importance been place on trying to understand the people, the culture, the ambitions and desires of the people of these third world countries, by recruiting agents who had ties, or connections with these countries, we would have been in a better position to deal with the situations that have occurred in resent years.