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This episode explores Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner as a systems-level analysis of how intelligence institutions evolve when analysis and covert political action exist within the same organization.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated scandals, the episode shows why intelligence failures can persist across decades—and how intelligence agencies gradually become embedded instruments of geopolitical power.

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