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Elon Musk e Donald Trump
Plarties employees with “burnt position” and agents with resentful valuable information. The CIA may be on the brink of collapse with regard to the best kept secrets.
Donald Trump is carrying a series of government cuts – starting inside.
Americans are reducing the federal workforce, which also means cutting into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the main US secret service. But this personnel reduction is having consequences, tell internal sources to.
CIA sent an extraordinarily unusual email earlier this month with a list of all new signings that had been at the agency for two years or less through an unmisted server.
Problem: In the list of names, they are people who worked under disguise. According to current and former secret services employees, this exposure may raise confidentiality problems (or absence of confidentiality in this case).
Now, these agents whose name was on the list that were preparing to be highlighted to other countries, where they would act to the undercover, can be retained or transferred, due to the risk of their identity to have been exposed to computer pirates foreigners.
The identity of CIA agents who already worked undercover in US embassies abroad, for example, may also have been unraveled.
“His predecessor was in this position, just like the five officers who preceded him. Now, the host country and opponents know that the person who goes to this position at the embassy is from the agency, ”exemplifies a former CIA official. “Now, they start from the principle that the predecessors were the same and work backwards to discover their collective footprint.”
In short: “The position is now burned.”
In addition, current and former secret services officials explain to CNN that mass discharges can be an excellent opportunity for recruitment for foreign secret services – such as China or Russia.
Now people who have had access to important state secrets can be resentful of the government itself and sell information abroad.
“If we take the number of employees who will be failed and who are aware of sensitive programs – that is, by definition, a internal risk“Explains a source. “The data is just launching that these people will honor their confidential agreement And they will not offer a hostile information service. ”
There is not much that the CIA can do when it comes to monitoring the former employees – nothing guarantees that the information cannot be spread, which has already happened.
“I am not sure if the administration really understands [esse risco] And besides, even if you understand, it is not clear that you worry, ”commented one employee. But the risk is “real,” he warns.
Doge: Efficiency can come out man
The new US Efficiency Department, led by Elon Musk, can also represent a security problem, as new Doge’s new employees will have access to confidential information.
“All payments made by the US government [inclusive os pagamentos relacionados com os serviços secretos] go through this system. All, ”says an internal source.
A supervisor of the Information and Security Operations of the Fiscal Service Office even filed a statement in court where the potential risks, which included “access to sensitive data elements, The risk of internal threats and other risks inherent in the access of any user to sensitive computer systems. ”
