He did.
The US had several intelligence operations with quite different cultures. All the successful intelligence operations the US has pulled off were by the NSA, all the embarassing ones you read about in the paper were by the CIA, and the DIA mostly do OPFOR weapons specifications and operations research.
The CIA were Clowns In Arlington which did both clerical/experts white intelligence where sensible and reasonably intelligent specialists read the papers, and humint/spec ops stuff where you bribe and assassinate, run by not so intelligent people like George Bush, Jr., the nominal president.
NSA were No Such Agency because they could keep their mouths shut. They did space satellites and other high technology stuff, and they also did all the crypto stuff. They were started and run by very, very, very, smart people.
DIA is military attaches and they mostly just wandered around and looked at things and military maneuvers. They were legal spies, so to speak. We let the Russians wander around in America and they let us wander around in Russia, more to reassure ourselves and themselves about things than to actually find out any secrets. We both had a mutual interest in not overestimating the other so as to avoid any unnecessary arms races.