One of the reasons I brought up this topic is that I was surprised to find that nearly all of the top people in the CIA, NSA, DHS, DoD, etc. that I have talked to/with over the last few months didn't know anything about the topic. Hopefully, I can put this on their forward looking radar.

Christ, I hope that's wrong. I mean god dammit.

Depends if by "top people" he means the top-level career folks or the political appointees. Figure if we're talking about the same "top people" who bought into the notion that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11, that Saddam's Iraq had nuclear weapons, delivery systems, and mobile bioweapons labs, who are now pushing for an attack on Iran even when we don't have enough armed forces left to actually do anything other than drop bombs (all while supporting a yet another surge to suppress an insurgency against an Iraqi government that is pro-Iran and not paying too much attention to where the arms and shit they're sending is actually going), then I'm not in the least surprised.