BULLSEYE!
I think you have discovered the source of this entire DUMPSTER FIRE!
I think, however, that Chinese Intelligence may be on the hook as well. Take Diane Fwinestein: (please!) we now know she is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Government and she’s the one at the center of this mess. But that in no way precludes the CIA being involved at all, being as we don’t know all the tangled webs that have been spun.