Con artists target people with narcissistic personality disorder (NPDs) because their sense of entitlement leads them to believe they deserve the get-rich-quick scheme. This guy’s story about the asset who turned out to be a double agent trying to kill CIA officers reminded me of that. The NPDs in the CIA were so full of themselves and overconfident in their ability to get “good” intel from an asset that they didn’t see they were being conned, and so they didn’t properly protect themselves. The CIA screwed themselves by recruiting NPDs, but I suppose it’s a catch-22 for the CIA because quality human beings with enough humility to be objective don’t want to be deep state goons.