Who said anything about conversion?

The reason we're struggling is because we just don't have enough information. Of course our previous efforts have failed. We don't know anything about them. How they think. How they operate. How they brainwash. Their desires, their weak spots. We just have to get someone in there to spy. That's all. Nothing dangerous. Just intel. We can't even think about taking them down from the inside until we have that.

You have to play the long game.