incompetence

During the Dutch Revolt, the Spanish response was a bit of mix bag. On one hand, they were able to recapture Flanders, and Brabant due to talented generals in the later stages, and ending up keeping the Southern Netherlands until the War of Spanish Succession. However on the other hand...

Okay, so your challenge here is pretty simple: make the CIA as utterly incompetent as possible, and make them basically the Great Emu War of intelligence organizations reputation-wise (basically an utter failure). Have fun please.