It strains credulity for the CIA to complain about a foreign intelligence operation undermining fair democratic elections; this has been their business around the world, from its early days helping throw elections in post-war Europe to Cold War campaigns in Central and South America. The CIA’s own history of electoral shenanigans makes them an untrustworthy character in this drama.
He is correct.
Just as the FBI is the misbegotten offspring of J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA is very much the child of Allen and John Foster Dulles.