Stanislaw Lem had a genius for dissecting a certain kind of bureaucratic paranoia, and so I very much wish Lem was around to write something about the very bad

Stanislaw Lem had a genius for dissecting a certain kind of bureaucratic paranoia, and so I very much wish Lem was around to write something about the very bad intelligence that convinced Putin that the invasion of Ukraine would be easy. In "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" Lem relates the story of a man who has just joined the secret intelligence service and who now needs to find out what his first assignment is. He goes to one part of the bureau to ask for his assignment, but they have no proof that he is who he says he is, so they send him elsewhere, so he goes to another part, but they are a bit suspicious that he doesn't yet know his assignment. How can they be sure he really is part of the secret intelligence service? He tries to simplify the conversation: where should I go to find my assignment? Now the bureaucrats are even more suspicious, he's asking where he can find more information, isn't that something an enemy spy would ask, to learn more about how the secret intelligence service works? And yet, they have to proof he is a spy, so they cannot accuse him, so they simply send him somewhere else. When he gets to that other place, the bureaucrats are even more paranoid, here is a guy who has been bouncing around the agency, gathering information, but not doing any real work? Maybe he is a spy? Yet they have no proof he is a spy so... A slightly different kind of paranoia and delusion shaped Russian intelligence on Ukraine, but I think Lem would have been the perfect writer to dissect it.