CIA Director John Ratcliffe, less than two weeks into his tenure, is undertaking the most significant overhaul of the agency’s workforce in modern history.
On Tuesday, the entire CIA workforce received an email offering the opportunity for a “deferred resignation,” which would allow officers to stop coming into work but receive full pay and benefits until September 30, 2025, the official date of their resignation. They would be allowed to also work in the private sector during that time, potentially giving them two incomes.
The same offer was sent out to 2,000,000 other federal employees last week, but until now had excluded national security agencies. Ratcliffe personally decided he wanted the CIA to participate, according to sources.
Last Thursday, the director emailed the Office of Personnel Management, which has been administering the program, and asked for a process that would enable CIA to email its entire workforce offering the opportunity, while allowing the CIA flexibility to work through the timing of officer departures in critical areas.
Ratcliffe also offered long-tenured officers an early retirement option and halted Entry on Duty (EOD) for those who had been offered a job late in the Biden administration, to review whether their position aligns with the Trump administration’s priorities. […]
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