The Central Intelligence Agency has moved to reject an unspecified number of officers who were working on employment and diversity cases, according to former officials, while it will be one of the largest mass launches in the agency’s history.
The cleansing of potential officers comes at a time when the agency moves to comply with the spirit of President Trump’s executive command, which prohibits efforts to diversify the federal workforce.
On Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency started contacting the officers who were placed on an administrative leave and asking them to resign or shoot, but the Federal Court soon stopped this procedure. A judge in the eastern province of Virginia is scheduled to hold a hearing on Monday to consider a temporary restriction against the agency.
Former officials said that while presidents are often demanding changes in politics in the agency, it is rare for job employees who have implemented the priorities of the previous administration that will be expelled. Former President Barack Obama, for example, ended the CIA’s interrogation program during the era of former President George W. Bush, but he did not shoot the officers accused of torturing al -Qaeda prisoners.
The Central Intelligence Agency conducted the last time in 1977, when President Jimmy Carter ordered the agency to stay away from secret work. Stanfeld Turner, Director of the CIA at the time, Go to Fire 198 officers Participate in secret work. But even this reduction in size was done with some care, to spare some people who were close to the retirement age.
Kevin Carroll, a former CIA officer and lawyer representing 21 intelligence officers who had called for a lawsuit against the new ceasefire, said about 51 officers working in diversity and employment were spending their positions.
Mr. Carroll said, none of the officers who want the agency to shoot two diversity experts. He and other former officials said that the officers had ordered during the Biden administration to take jobs because of their persuasion and employment skills, in some cases they were hurt while working as spies abroad.
“Nobody joins the CIA to be a diversity recruiter,” said Mr. Carroll.
Some officials have previously said that they hope that the agency will be saved from the diversity -related shooting, and that the officers will be able to return to their old jobs in hiring spies abroad.
Former officials said that the White House’s national security exclusion in its place was to reduce the size of the federal government had to prevent fire. Mr. Carroll said that the executive order for Mr. Trump only requires the agency to end diversity programs, and not to launch people who take initiatives.
The expansion of the CIA diversity and other intelligence agencies was a priority from William J. Burns, who led the agency during the Biden Administration, and Efriel Henz, former director of National Intelligence.
Mr. Carroll said that his clients were carrying out orders from intelligence and Congress leaders, which imposed efforts to diversify intelligence agencies in the last statement law.
“More than any other organization in the United States government, the CIA has a condition of diversity,” said Mr. Carroll. “We need to be people who can confuse outside.”
