“intelligence sources” ?
You’d prefer unintelligent sources? Already plenty of those. A religion of domination that tells it’s followers they’ll die if they leave but it’s okay to lie to those not in the cult should make an outstanding source of unintelligence.
Most of our “intelligence” sources are unintelligent. They mostly just feed what the boss wants to hear. Whether or not its true. The boss wants a war, they “see” a threat.