 There were very few Americans who knew much about Albania. The first thing when you see it, that that might be a potential place to go work, you have to go to the map and find out where it is. It's in southern Europe, near Greece and across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. Waite says during the Cold War, Albania was neither aligned with the United States nor the Soviet Union. Its borders were closed. Military bunkers around those borders implied the country was preparing for an invasion, possibly from the United States.