Yes! They sure were/are.
Lies, lies, lies,lies,lies.......
You know why they keep doing it??
'Cause it works!
But the bad news for them is it only “works” temporarily.
When they made the decision to establish their operation on lies, they guaranteed their own defeat.
When the Berlin wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, the CIA and NSA should have been cut down by 90% and repurposed. The FBI now would be a competing agency in need of political purpose and domestic counterintelligence operations in order to have the best enemies for self promotion.