The Central Intelligence Agency has become the first major national security agency to offer buyouts to its entire workforce, sources said. The move, part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal government, allows employees to resign with roughly eight months of pay and benefits. CIA Director John Ratcliffe personally decided to include the agency in the buyout program. Trump and his allies have claimed at different points that intelligence officers at the CIA have been part of a “deep state” determined to undermine him. Some critics have described the deferred resignation program as a purge, which Trump officials have denied.
