I don’t know if he formally is, but I don’t think it particularly matters. He’s a comprador. Maybe he’ll end up dead, maybe he’ll end up living next door to Bolsonaro in Florida, with a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool.

Technically, probably not. I often think a lot more people get grouped into being operatives than actually are. I think most of the time they are individuals that serve CIA interests and are consequently propped up/allowed to flourish, without being actual operatives. Javier seems a bit too legitimately batshit to be an actual op.

But he is absolutely acting at their behest, knowingly or not. So the distinction ultimately makes little difference.