Latell believes the Cuban double agents’ skill allowed them to evade detection. El Alpinista takes an opposite stance, suggesting that the CIA simply wasn’t as vigilant as they should have been. Gladwell disagrees with both positions, suggesting that nothing the CIA or double agents did or didn’t do would have changed the outcome of the situation, since agents failing to detect spy activity is a widespread occurrence that happens all the time. This implies, perhaps, that humans are fundamentally flawed at detecting when some is deceiving them.