Significance of The Colonel's Article

Rick Voss is the first to mention this article to Skip. The article was presented to the CIA for publication in that agency's in-house magazine, but it was never published. The ideas are complex but basically indicate that the CIA's chain of command is ineffective at handling information and passing orders back down that chain. Some believe the argument has merit but that it borders on treason. The reader eventually learns that Voss was at least partly responsible for writing the article.