Current Events > CIA sends 'buyout' offers to entire workforce

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/cia-workforce-buyouts/index.html

The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce

!!! Is the CIA is not dirty enough for the curent administration?

guess we won't need spies anymore if we build a wall around the entire country and cutoff all communication with the world

I'm gonna go ahead and guess they won't get paid if they accept the offer.

Huh, an oppressive government is about to infiltrate and manipulate the CIA.

Well well, turntables, turned, etc.

You mean Termination Notices.

CableZL posted...

I'm gonna go ahead and guess they won't get paid if they accept the offer.

With Trump and Elons track records, probably not

Imagine firing the CIA people for not being evil enough.

No matter what you think of the CIA...destroying it completely is just something no one can defend unless you WANT to destroy the nation.

?? My uninformed guess is

#47 will buy and sell secrets on the dark web so no need for CIA.

Can't even enjoy the dissolution of the CIA. Nazis ruin everything.

CIA: "So this is what it feels like!"

Necronmon posted...

No matter what you think of the CIA...destroying it completely is just something no one can defend unless you WANT to destroy the nation.

Well that's exactly what they want so makes sense

https://web.mit.edu/~dcltdw/AOW/13.html

13. The Use of Spies

A major military operation is a severe drain on the nation, and may be kept up for years in the struggle for one day's victory. So to fail to know the conditions of opponents because of reluctance to give rewards for intelligence is extremely inhumane, uncharacteristic of a true military leader, uncharacteristic of an assistant of the government, uncharacteristic of a victorious chief. So what enables an intelligent government and a wise military leadership to overcome others and achieve extraordinary accomplishments is foreknowledge.

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.

There are five kinds of spy: The local spy, the inside spy, the reverse spy, the dead spy, and the living spy. When the five kinds of spies are all active, no one knows their routes - this is called organizational genius, and is valuable to the leadership.

Local spies are hired from among the people of a locality. Inside spies are hired from among enemy officials. Reverse spies are hired from among enemy spies. Dead spies transmit false intelligence to enemy spies. Living spies come back to report.

Therefore no one in the armed forces is treated as familiarly as are spies, no one is given rewards as rich as those given to spies, and no matter is more secret than espionage.

One cannot use spies without sagacity and knowledge, one cannot use spies without humanity and justice, one cannot get the truth from spies without subtlety. This is a very delicate matter indeed. Spies are useful everywhere.

If an item of intelligence is heard before a spy reports it, then both the spy and the one who told about it die.

Whenever you want to attack an army, besiege a city, or kill a person, first you must know the identities of their defending generals, their associates, their visitors, their gatekeepers, and their chamberlains, so you have your spies find out.

You must seek out enemy agents who have come to spy on you, bribe them and induce them to stay with you, so you can use them as reverse spies. By intelligence thus obtained, you can find local spies and inside spies to employ. By intelligence thus obtained, you can cause the misinformation of dead spies to be conveyed to the enemy. By intelligence thus obtained, you can get living spies to work as planned.

It is essential for a leader to know about the five kinds of espionage, and this knowledge depends on reverse spies, so reverse spies must be treated well.

So only a brilliant ruler or a wise general who can use the highly intelligent for espionage is sure of great success. This is essential for military operations, and the armies depend on this in their actions.

Lol nvm shouldn't joke around too much

"Please throw away your pensions"