the cia is designed as a factional loyalty and skill organization. internal warfare is critical to its function and its outcome predictors. the outcome is developed before the final result - and any/all will execute the same endgame, just through different means/method. this is the heart of "racing" culture driving the cultural ideological rabidity. it is not virtually stoked and manipulated. it's very simple.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency