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2025-02-06 Home Front: WoT

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Text taken from an article which appeared in rbc.ru

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The CIA has joined Trump's program to reduce the government apparatus, as part of which the agency's employees were offered to resign and receive salaries for eight months in advance. The agency called it part of a strategy to "reenergize"

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed among its employees an offer to resign with the condition of receiving salaries for eight months and benefits, CNN and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report with reference to sources.

An assistant to the CIA Director appointed by the new President Donald Trump, John Ratcliffe, said that the agency is also freezing the hiring of new employees who have already received offers.

The agency representative said that this step is part of an effort to "ensure that the CIA's employees are aligned with the administration's national security priorities" and called it part of a "comprehensive strategy to reenergize the agency."

During the election campaign, Trump promised to reform the US bureaucracy and after taking office, he began to implement the plan. The TV channel and the newspaper note that the CIA was the first national security agency to be affected by these measures.

According to CNN, Ratcliffe personally decided that the agency should be involved in this program of action. The channel's sources noted that it is not yet clear whether all employees will be able to take advantage of the said conditions, or whether they only apply to certain positions.

WSJ, citing an assistant to the new director, indicates that the CIA now intends to pay more attention to the Western Hemisphere and those countries that are not considered US adversaries. The agency is going to take on tasks to combat Mexican drug cartels and will probably monitor the Mexican government in view of the trade war.

CNN points out that, according to some members of Trump's team, in recent years the CIA has begun to focus too much on analysis at the expense of covert intelligence collection and covert operations.

On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed dozens of executive orders, including those related to the work of the federal government, and, for example, banned the hiring of civil servants and the adoption of new regulations until his administration establishes "full control" over the federal government. In addition, government employees were ordered to immediately leave remote work and return to their workplaces.

The US administration also created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will be headed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, the goal of the new structure is to carry out massive layoffs and purges in the government apparatus.

In fact, this is a continuation of the purge of people associated with the Democrats, as has already happened with the leadership of USAID. In this case, this public is offered to receive severance pay and leave the CIA on their own. It can be expected that after this stage, there will be targeted dismissals/transfers to secondary positions of those who persist in their delusions. Trump has not forgotten the role of the CIA in interfering in American domestic political processes in the interests of Clinton and Biden, so revenge is inevitable, especially since there is his own man at the head of the CIA + there is a motivation of "cost reduction", within the framework of which a lot can be done with Musk's visa, including bypassing the US Congress, which especially outrages the Democrats. The usual restraining mechanism for balancing processes does not work.

The next round will be in the courts, where the Democrats will try to put up a fight, because at this rate Trump will still break a lot of firewood in the process of fighting the "Biden legacy", and the midterm elections are still far away.

In general, the partial restructuring of the CIA is beneficial to us, since it will certainly hit the agency as a whole, despite public statements that it will not affect the CIA's day-to-day work. However, I would not count on Ratcliffe turning out to be someone like Bakatin and doing to the CIA what Bakatin did to the KGB.

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin, briefly the last chairman of the KGB before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He died in 2022, having done his best to be one of the good guys under difficult circumstances, as far as I can tell.
After all, we are talking about a soft purge of Trump's opponents within the intelligence services.

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