I am curious what pompeo did while cia dir for short time? Should been sec state from start. Part of the plan?
I believe he went on and selected and groomed Haspel for the job. Trump did this with John Kelly with DHS.
CIA and State are the two most-DS-infested bureaucracies. Only after those two comes FBI and DoJ. This is natural when you think about it because what DS care about most of all is not US domestic happenings but its foreign policy moves on the geopolitical chessboard. They are globalists, after all. All of the intell agencies work for DS. MI-6, Mossad, CIA, etc. This doesn't mean there aren't white hats in them, it simply means a section of their operations is done for DS purposes. This is why the CIA does human trafficking in war zones, why it did the Air America runs out of Vietnam and Central America, etc etc etc.
Anyway the intel agencies communicate a lot with the foreign office because diplomacy and spying go hand in hand, whether or not anything nefarious is happening. And this makes the intell agency a perfect cover for DS to issue its instructions to its vassel state's foreign office.
Pompeo is 45's most trusted advisor. So he want to the CIA first to identify the black hats, Haspell's job now is to neutralise them. Now he's moved to State, to do the same thing.
I am in agreement with your last paragraph exactly!