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The CIA is capable of being wrong. Anyone at the CIA accepting that document at face value, without asking their fellow analysts how they came to those conclusions, is failing to do their job.
Also the CIA is capable of being downright evil as fuck which makes me trust their executive summary even less.
So far you’ve linked to two authorities providing high level conclusions, and no data. You want to talk to me about believing propaganda, but the kinds of sources you believe are super low quality. You seem to think because a big organization makes a claim, that it’s true.
The second one is literally a paper that explains exactly how it comes to those conclusions. You're just demonstrating that you haven't read it.