“The CIA is notorious for their sloppy field craft.”
The CIA is nothing but a bureaucrat organization that produces very little useful information or conducts useful operations. Like any org with money, it became corrupted with academics, posers, frauds, and “managers”. Years back I did a short job in Columbia. I heard all kinds of great things about one particular CIA operative. I found he, like so many in the CIA, was nothing but a poser taking credit for other people’s work, usually the work of contractors. He never got his hands dirty and never had any ideas or answers. That’s why I was there. He took credit at the CIA for my ideas. The good news is I outranked him by a wide margin and took political revenge. He ended up at NASA; now THAT’S embarrassing.