Hierarchical organizations with strict information controls are terribly vulnerable to group think. Compartmentalization means that even if the US was really u

Hierarchical organizations with strict information controls are terribly vulnerable to group think. Compartmentalization means that even if the US was really using biological weapons the people terrified of brainwashing at the CIA probably wouldn't know that. And it wasn't just the existence of the US brainwashing program that was a consequence of this belief. Angleton threw every Russian who attempted to defect to the US into jail because he thought that Soviet brainwashing made true defection impossible.