Intelligence bug?

Hi everyone. This is my first post here, so please don't flame me if this has been covered billions of times before. I did search and could not find any answers though.

So I was using 25% of my intelligence to do espionage on an enemy civilization. After a long struggle I managed to wipe them out. Received a message saying that the contact with them was long. Great! Now I go into my Intelligence window and it says that 75% of my points are allocated to defense, yet no way to bring it back to 100%. I'm not doing any spying on anyone else, and my points are just going nowhere, apparently.

I know this bug has been encountered before in some threads, but I could not see anyone actually providing a resolution that did not involve restarting the game.

I have the latest patch, and the game has been started with that patch.

Can anyone tell me which direction to go on this please?