THE UNLIKELY DIPLOMAT TRAVELER TALES

Hard work, lots of reading, factory jobs took me from a poor, uneducated family , through BS and MA, then into intelligence work, then 29 years of postings at Embassies in Africa, Europe and Australia. Short stories illuminate poor family background, great curiosity and wide reading, work in intelligence and at posts abroad. Bit of history frames some stories including social, military, political, racial conflicts/conditions in countries abroad. Some notes on terrorism, Communism, spying.