After meeting with Kwang Jingshu in China, I have now returned to the United States. Specifically, I am right now in Langley, Virginia. Today, I met with the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Bob Archer. Unlike in China, the communications and infrastructure of the United Statea are not completely down due to a stronger economy and government just before the outbreak. This seemed to make the director much calmer than Kwang.
While interviewing Mr. Archer, I learnt many things about the US government. For one, the US government is not as powerful as it seems and makes other countries believe. The CIA itself was never as complicated and intricate as its history and work would have indicated. Although it seemed to be at numerous places at one time, Mr. Archer explained that even this organization's resources were limited.
But back to the Zombie Wars. The CIA, just like many other government organizations, had realized the threat of the plague but actually had a plan to prevent an outbreak in the United States. They had first received their report from Mr. Paul Knight, whom I had previously interviwed, and I was surprised to know that the CIA, at first, did very little even though they knew about the threat. But after some thought, this might be understandable because they would want to prevent panic from spreading in the United States at the time.
One thing that surprised me was that initially, when the plague first broke out in China, the CIA was largely unaware and refused to do anything. This may have been because of their naivety, as Mr. Archer had said. But I believe it was becuase the CIA did not want to do anything about it as they did not think it was a threat. Sure, certain employees had their theories. But the truth of the matter is that no action was taken and this has made all of the difference...
So did the CIA knowingly take no action or were they fooled by China? And did they take the Warbrunn-Knight Report seriously? I think not as if they did, they might have been able to prevent World War Z from ever happening.
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I have noticed in your records of your interviews your reiterated question of whether or not this disaster could have been avoided had a certain person or group of people made a decision changing the fate of themselves and the world as a whole. As I believe that people will continue to wonder what different outcomes could have come about had some of these decisions been different, the fact of the matter is that these people cannot actually make the events real-time and re-do a certain decision. I accept the fact that my comment will probably not change the urge to seek knowledge of how things could have been different, though, but still preach that the past is the past and we should cut our losses and move forward to bring our population back to stability. Although, it is far easier said than done, huh?
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