Simulation, day 1

I thought I'd mention one problem with our simulation.  In the simulation, each side could acquire accurate information about the opposition by putting points into spying.  In real life, however, the Soviets severely outmatched the Americans in this regard.  Throughout much of the fifties and sixties, the CIA was focusing more on failed "covert operations" than on gathering intelligence.  In fact, according, at least, to Tim Weiner, the CIA was outmanned and outgunned from the beginning, and its earliest exploits were foiled because Soviet intelligence had infiltrated it at every level.  The question arises:  how did we win?  And why didn't we blow ourselves up?  (Stay tuned, I guess.)