SUMMARY
Over a period of 30 years of assisting mission agencies managing kidnappings, CCI has experienced the widest possible range of support and interaction with the United States government (USG). In some cases, support and assistance has been top notch; but in other cases trying to get the simplest things from the USG seemed to require superhuman effort. And in a few cases the problem wasn’t a failure to help, but rather opposition and interference.
In 2014, a number of public events that included the beheadings of American hostages by ISIS revealed significant shortcomings in how the USG handled cases of American hostages. Read full Advisory