Douglas Valentine was researching a book on the Phoenix Program in Vietnam a couple decades back. In doing this he interviewed several high ranking CIA officers including William Colby, head of the Phoenix Program and later CIA director. The PP was the CIAs war on civilians in Vietnam, and it was very brutal.
In one of his last interviews for the book, he was offered a job in Washington as an assistant to someone in Congress. His job would be to research for bills or whatever but the CIA would feed him information and tell him what to report back. This was in the 80s and the job paid (and it was with no prior work experience having just graduated college) about 90k. He turned it down.
The CIA has been doing this sort of thing, filling DC with basically spies (the President doesn’t control the CIA, but someone does) since the 50s. Col L Fletcher Prouty said the same thing in the 60s and it goes on today.
Placing people as “moles” is an old bureaucratic tactic. In Washington, information is power. Naturally, politicians would love to have an inside informer or two to keep them abreast of things so this story makes complete sense.
If Trump wants to catch the mole, he’ll have to bait the trap.
Who killed Jack Kennedy?
Bush league investigation.