I believe (and hope) that you are right. If someone in U.S. intelligence deliberately leaked this story, it being true and he not being authorized to leak it, then that person needs to be tried, or "terminated" in the field.
Lets see, we have former and serving U.S. officials, sources, a former long-time CIA operative, one former senior CIA official, a senior administration official, one former senior agency covert operative, and its written by UPI.
And pigs fly.