To me when I want to better contextualize what I'm reading when I'm reading about former CIA (who haven't tried to better their ways), I like to substitute in different terms to help wash out the lib brainworms; basically I think of it as ex-Gestapo who served in Poland asking a guy about his pets (could also mention the guy died shortly after, but I've no idea if the real guy in this scenario died or had an unfortunate incident). The term CIA doesn't turn people off like it really should.