Seems like a pretty wacky thing to do IMO. Maybe the CIA does have some operatives in the Russian aerospace industry. But why would any such operatives risk ex

Seems like a pretty wacky thing to do IMO. Maybe the CIA does have some operatives in the Russian aerospace industry. But why would any such operatives risk exposing themselves by sabotaging hardware going to the ISS? Just for a rather contrived plan to make the Russians look incompetent while putting American astronauts at risk too? Surely the CIA can come up with better ways to make the Russians look incompetent without putting carefully established agents at risk. Or they can just do nothing, since the Russians seem to have little trouble displaying ineptitude without any assistance.