There’s a huge difference between planning the deaths of your own people and just letting it happen. I believe the latter rather than the former. Intel operators have to live here in this country and have family here and yon that they probably care about.
As far as the higher ups go, yes, I can see them hoping for collateral damage to give them more power. And some are so naive they’d let things happen because they’re blind to the truth, like so many Leftists.
But I sure would like to find out.
Sometimes, if you have followed an intel agency for a couple of decades and you sorta have an idea of their capablities it's hard not to try and put it all together and than attempt to confirm what you have come up with.