LOL
The CIA works hard to make sure there's a rumor that they did damn near anything and everything that happens except the half of what they've actually done that backfires badly.
Yeah I thought was hilarious too.
Nedelin and his merry band of hopeless techs were more then capable of blowing themselves up without covert help. It’s almost comical because Nedelin himself had no business being anywhere near a hypergolic launch vehicle and certainly had no idea what a sequencer was.