Isn't a new actor for him anyway (looked like it in Ep 1)? He's getting the Bobby treatment from "Mad Men".

Could also indicate his relative youth and inexperience. It's easy, as a "true believer", to advocate someone's death when it's largely an intellectual exercise, i.e. when you've never had to pull the trigger yourself. Right now, Tuan appears to have the zealotry of a convert, it will be interesting to see how it…

I'm probably completely off base on this, but I think the CIA is trying to figure out what caused the Soviet crop failure that occurred at roughly this time so as to prevent it in the US/Europe. A much more benign "we need to figure out what's happening" rather than a malevolent "let's bring them to their knees". As…