While Michael Burke and Peter Sichel and Frank Lindsay had all soured on the CIA’s infiltration schemes for a rather similar constellation of reasons, it was Sichel’s theory—that the Soviets were tacitly allowing the guerrilla groups to operate—that was the most conspiratorial. Even he, though, didn’t appear to carry his suspicions to the ultimate, most disturbing, possibility: what if the guerrilla groups didn’t actually exist at all?
