Maybe some folks involved had some "connection" at some point in their lives, but this seems really weird as an official or even non official operation.
Like what do you get interrogating these folks anyway, you automatically give away what you're asking for. Strange.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence-torture...
If the CIA or anyone was armed with fake guns breaking into embassies and trying to extract information by force regularly ... we'd hear about it.
Something slower, more covert, and less out of a blockbuster spy movie. More John Le Carré and less James Bond.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communicati...
Some have claimed that their secrecy is less about national security, and more about job security. If the public knew their mistakes, they would have been disbanded a long time ago (although similar claims have been made about the UK's SIS).
I can't convince you otherwise, or even explain my own POV, if you have some strong belief that this must be them, even without much of any evidence.
I also don't think people care like you think they care.
That wasn't something I said.
> if you have some strong belief that this must be them
Literally never said nor implied that.
> I also don't think people care like you think they care.
I don't know what this is in response to.
Did you reply to the wrong post?
> https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communicati...
Are you serious? That example is a far cry from acting like a bunch of incompetent bank robbers, like whoever conducted this present attack on the NK embassy.