Complex sentence: These zoological metaphors work to contrast the spy-runners at OSO and the field operatives of OPC, two groups joined in the far-reaching, intra-CIA merger under Bedell Smith.
Split into simpler sentences: These zoological metaphors work to contrast the spy-runners at OSO and the field operatives of OPC. Yet these two groups were joined in the far-reaching, intra-CIA merger under Bedell Smith.