A CIA spokesperson declined to say how many people received offers or whether they face any deadline to decide. Trump’s Office of Personnel Managemen t already has offered millions of federal ...

The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar ...

A CIA official told USA TODAY that the buyouts were part of an effort by newly confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe to ensure that the CIA workforce was responsive to the Trump administration's ...

Ex-CIA Director John Brennan claimed President Donald Trump had "misrepresented the facts" on the Hunter Biden laptop story after his security clearance was revoked on Tuesday. By executive order ...

The CIA now believes the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have originated from a laboratory leak in China than from animals. It follows the release of new analysis that began under the Biden ...

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.

Understanding leaders around the world is one of the CIA’s most important jobs. Teams of analysts comb through intelligence collected by spies and publicly available information to create ...

But in the final weeks of the Biden administration, former CIA Director William Burns asked CIA analysts and scientists to make a clear determination, stressing the pandemic's historical ...

The truth is still unknown. But on Jan. 25, 2025, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) weighed in, saying in a statement to reporters that the virus is “more likely” to have come from a lab ...

That was the news this weekend after new CIA director John Ratcliffe released an agency assessment that the Biden Administration had declined to make public. “I had the opportunity on my first ...

Washington — The Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director on Thursday as Republicans work to approve officials to the top posts in President Trump's administration amid delays by Democrats.

A former CIA operative has revealed the agency pursues people with a certain mental disorder as it makes them the best agents. John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said the ...