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How about NOT thinking of the CIA as the Keystone Kops, but as an effective, if problematic, tentacle of the Owners machine? Humans are gonna human, no matter how trained, "professional" or "patriotic" they may be, and in those HUGE sinkholes there's all kinds of space for mind control and "intelligence gathering" wins and losses.

The REAL mystery is: why do humans choose to work for such organizations? Greed only takes you so far, even in this iteration of Life. What POSSESSES them?

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"why do humans choose to work for such organizations?"

Some delude themselves that they are saving the country/world, others were bullying victims as kids and are getting back at the world. The former lean narcissist and the latter lean sociopath/psychopath. In both cases, normal people have a very hard time trying to figure them out because their brains don't work like ours.

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