Actually, they are really really good at what they do. They are so good at what they do that when their novices screw up they get blamed for the entire CIA. The Constitution disappeared the day the CIA appeared. Khrushchev won.
It's not just novices. They're so untouchable a d they know it from experience so they start to get stupid sloppy in certain cases.
Here's a hilarious true story of an incident from the archives.
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