Trump administration plans to cut thousands of employees at spy agencies

The Trump administration plans to significantly shrink the workforce of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies, with the aim of cutting thousands of employees over several years, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. A CIA spokesperson said in an email that the agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, “is moving swiftly to ensure the CIA workforce is responsive to the Administration’s national security priorities.” Other intelligence agencies, which, unlike the CIA, fall under the Defense Department’s budget, are looking to make personnel cuts in line with the Pentagon’s goal of reducing the civilian workforce by up to 8%, according to a former intelligence official and one of the sources with knowledge of the matter.

Author: Dan De Luce, Raquel Coronell Uribe

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