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I suspect this solution makes sense in the short run. In the long-run it makes it so any organizational incompetence can be covered up with "it's classified". Over 80+ years the organization starts to struggle with basic reality.

I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA is filled with Byzantine Bureaucracy, fiefdoms, and departments that don't even know what they are supposed to do. In a kafka-esque twist I'd bet there are individuals who aren't even allowed to know their own job description due to some papered over incompetence.