The Central Intelligence Agency is laying off some recently hired officers as President Donald Trump's efforts to downsize and reshape the federal government reverberate through the intelligence community.

Firings and mass disruptions at the CIA could harm intelligence collection on foreign threats and future recruiting, current and former officials say.

A former CIA director has accused Donald Trump of “extortion” by stopping the sharing of US intelligence with Ukraine. John Brennan told Times Radio the “absolutely unprecedented” move could have “devastating consequences” for Kyiv.

Mussayev is not the first former KGB officer to make such a claim. Years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now living in Washington, D.C., was a key source for Craig Unger’s book American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump,

Rachel Maddow ripped into the latest cost-cutting effort President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency ally Elon Musk have taken on: the unloading of government properties. “They tried to sell the CIA,

President Donald Trump says he is suspending the security clearances of attorneys at a prominent law firm involved in launching since-discredited opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into any ties between the Republican candidate and Russia.

Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.