The main external intelligence agency, the CIA, will eliminate 1,200 jobs, reports the Washington Post on Friday, May 2, when the White House presented a austerity budget project.
Donald Trump’s government has made parliamentarians know that CIA publications would intervene for several years, without layoffs, write to Americans daily.
A spokesman for the Intelligence Agency did not confirm these figures, but said that its director John Ratcliffe “acted quickly to ensure that the CIA personnel responded to the national security priorities defined by the Government.”
These changes must “place the CIA in a better position to guarantee their missions.”
Donald Trump wants to eliminate thousands of officials from public officials
The agency had become at the beginning of this year the first at the American Intelligence Galaxy in proposing that carrying cuts within it, responding to Donald Trump’s desire to eliminate thousands of officials from public officials and reduce the place of the federal state.
The number of CIA employees, as well as their total budget, are not public. The information revealed in 2013 by the complainant Edward Snowden and published in the Washington Post, however, revealed a total of around 21,000 employees.
According to the Washington Post on Friday, Cuts will also play the NSA, another specialized intelligence agency markedly in listening and cyberspage.
The White House also presented on Friday the first draft of the budget of the second term of Donald Trump, a project that the size in the programs goes against their ultra conservative ideas, saving only military and security expenses.
Source: BFM TV
