Within less than two weeks of office, CIA Director John Ratcliffe has taken on the most important overhaul of the institutional workforce in modern history.
On Tuesday, the entire CIA workforce received an email offering an opportunity for a “deferred resignation.” They will also be allowed to work in the private sector during that time, potentially giving them two incomes.
The same offer was sent to 2,000,000 other federal employees last week, but up until now it had ruled out national security agencies. Sources say Ratcliffe personally decided he wanted the CIA to participate.
Last Thursday, the director emailed the HR office that manages the program, calling for a process that allows the CIA to send an email to the entire workforce that provides opportunities, and CIA flexibility will help the timing of executive departures. It allows for flexible operation. In important areas.
Ratcliffe also offered early retirement options to longtime executives, suspended entry on duty to those who were offered jobs later in the Biden administration, and whether their position aligns with the Trump administration's priorities I confirmed it.
These changes are the most important in the agency's modern history and the largest since former CIA director John Brennan. Reorganization in 2015.
A CIA spokesman told Breitbart News: These moves are part of the overall strategy to inject new energy into the institutions, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and provide the CIA in a better position, and deliver its mission to realise its mission. Masu. “
Breitbart News was told that before Ratcliffe's decision, many Intelligence Reports Community employees were already preparing to “reduce power” or blanket employees to cut the agency.
“Many people [are] Last week, a source said.
Ratcliffe, a former Republican Texas lawmaker and director of National Intelligence during the first Trump administration, previewed plans to revamp the agency at a confirmation hearing last month.
“Because you all know, the CIA has a very low turnover rate in the workforce, focusing on a mission to find deep meaning and value in unique jobs that you have the privilege to do every day. “It shows the success of the CIA in attracting civil servants who scored the results,” he said. “But in some cases it also suggests that self-satisfaction is tolerated. In the worst case, bad actors are not weeded.
“Nothing can poison a high-performance workplace culture more than a leader who hates only the mediocre thing and doesn't hold his team members accountable when he doesn't meet his expectations,” Ratcliffe added. “The CIA must be a place to encourage and reward meaningful contributions to our country's safety and hold responsible low-performance and bad actors who are not focused on our mission “
He also said he would develop a pathway for mid-career professionals with highly sought after skills to close the agency workforce gap.
“OSS, the CIA's World War II predecessor, is said to have described its ideal recruit as a “Doctor.” Who could win the bar battle? “This feeling is the essence of what the CIA has to retake today,” Ratcliffe said. “But we have to find a fighting spirit of recruits where talent, skill set and background are more diverse than ever.”
He recently told Breitbart News Washington Director Matthew Boyle that China is a top priority, but that foreign policy and intelligence agency are behind the times to understand the threats China poses to the United States. . Cold war with Russia.
“You have people who have long focused on the threat of Russia in various intelligence agencies. And, as you said, legally [Vladimir] Putin is a bad guy and administration with a huge nuclear stockpile that we need to talk about, but yeah, the intelligence community is the major geopolitical threat we face. I'm late to adapt to the fact that there is,” Ratcliffe said.
“It's the second largest economy and they compete with us alongside us on a peer-to-peer basis in ways that Russia can't. I think there's a reason for that. Washington, DC, from Wall Street, There was a desire to ensure that China is not labeled bad because many people from Silicon Valley, Hollywood and China make a lot of money. All of these It affects the location,” he said.
“But our intelligence is clear – as DNI, I have seen that now people don't see it – how sinister and malice the various weapons of the People's Republic of China and its Communist Party of China are As for what we have. So we are slow to adjust our focus, which is one of the things the President needs and wants from us.”
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