Sounds like a bad movie.
Actually, in Woody Allen’s Bananas. special forces are sent to fight on both sides of a conflict so the CIA covers all ground.
It was funny in a movie. Not in real life.
“It was funny in a movie. Not in real life.”
The failure is not with the CIA or the Pentagon. It is with the leadership of both. There appears to be no coherent policy from the top because there is no coherent policy from the top. So, the various agencies are given conflicting goals that may be generated by the equivalent of bureaucratic neural noise.