Commentary I am sure it is a totally unfounded rumor that the Central Intelligence Agency, the world’s most lavishly funded bastion of spooks, is about to shorten its name to “The Central Agency,” retiring the embarrassing and divisive word “intelligence.” I don’t know how the rumor got started, but the news, reported Saturday by The Financial Times, that in August the Chinese had successfully tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile lit a fire under the rumor mill. It was not so much the fact of the test as the ignorance of our so-called intelligence services that did the trick. According to the FT, “The test has raised new questions about why the US often underestimated China’s military modernization.” When it came to the Soviet Union, the CIA typically overestimated not only its military capabilities but also its economic strength. With China, the opposite seems to be the case. “We have no …