True. It doesn't not have to be a direct drop-in. It can be through recruitment. Slower process, but a better cover. Again, this is speculation, but it is logical to me that the CIA would want assets visiting the International Space Station. The experiments conducted up there are more than just measuring how Lima bean sprouts grow in micro-gravity.

None the less, somehow in his anti-Trump declarations he is following orders. Whatever that chain of command might be it would make for an interesting reveal.