How would the US have had more access to people on the ground in the USSR? More spies in country? The reason people "fumbled" after the USSR disintegrated wasn

How would the US have had more access to people on the ground in the USSR? More spies in country? The reason people "fumbled" after the USSR disintegrated wasn't because the collapse came as a surprise but because the split between using functioning liberal (not in the US political meaning) legal systems outside of Russia for protection while internally in Russia profiting from the lack thereof - I don't think anyone had that split really in their minds when thinking about a new structure there - it was a new phenomenon. People saw what was happening but didn't understand it and the average person on the street there didn't either. Btw., Russia or the USSR made little friends in Europe throughout history, either. I think bold claims that US cold war posture was wrong need a lot more evidence.