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00:02The Central Intelligence Agency has become the first major national security agency to offer
00:06buyouts to its entire workforce, sources said. The move, part of Donald Trump's efforts to shrink
00:12the federal government, allows employees to resign with roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
00:18CIA Director John Radcliffe personally decided to include the agency in the buyout program.
00:23Trump and his allies have claimed at different points that intelligence officers at the CIA
00:27have been a part of a deep state determined to undermine him. Some critics have described the
00:33deframed registration program as a purge, which Trump officials have denied.
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