To manage that security risk, the CIA worked with the SBU to create an entirely new directorate, officials said, one that would focus on so-called “active measures” operations against Russia and be insulated from other SBU departments.

Active measures, you say…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOmXiapfCs8

Begin there and consider the implications.

One implication being that if you are collecting intelligence against someone or conducting any intelligence at all: They become THE ENEMY.

Which is why until the 20th century Intelligence was kept in Militaries, putting them in suits and assigning under the Civil Service *simply created new armies*.

Nothing changed and that’s how we’ve come under shadow gendarme rule, except they don’t rule, they dabble.

Of course, the CIA, while incompetent regarding humint, is really good at killing civilians: Lumumba, Hammarskjöld, JKF, RFK…