The CIA is starting to shoot recently hired officers

The government cuts ordered by the Trump administration struck the CIA

Some officers hired in the past two years have been summoned to a place far from the agency’s head office in Langley, Virginia, and have asked to return their references to security personnel, according to three people informed of layoffs.

The layoffs are designed to eliminate the ranks of newly hired officers, who are also called “probation employees”.

A spokesperson for the agency has confirmed that some officers hired in the past two years have been dismissed.

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the classification democrat of the Senate Intelligence, said that the reports that newly hired agents were dislocated and “would undermine our national security”.

“It’s crazy,” said Warner. “We have finally obtained recruitment, but now the new agents will not have confidence – after having followed what is often a process of a few years to train – that their jobs will not be eliminated.”

It is not clear how many officers will be released, but people familiar with the effort said that not all recent hires would be rejected.