The Spook Who Sat By The Door

Dan Freeman is the first African American CIA officer hired by the agency in the late 1960s. Freeman is recruited as part of an affirmative-action program. After a very competitive selection process he trains in high-level combat and espionage. However, following this arduous training, this model recruit is rewarded with a post in the reprographics (aka photocopying) department, "left by the door" as a token of the CIA's "racial equality."