CIA to cut 1,000+ jobs as Trump admin targets spy agency bloat: Report



President Donald Trump's administration reportedly plans to slash roughly 1,200 positions at the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the administration aims to make significant cuts to the intelligence community, including slashing positions at the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

'These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position CIA to deliver on its mission.'

Sources told the Post that the Trump administration plans to reduce the CIA's workforce over the next several years by easing hiring and relying on normal attrition, including early retirements and resignations.

Lawmakers have already reportedly been informed of the White House's goals.

Officials who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter confirmed plans to eliminate more than 1,000 CIA positions, the New York Times reported.

It is unclear how many workers the CIA employs, but it is believed to have 22,000 on staff.

While a CIA spokesperson did not confirm the alleged plans, she told the Post that the agency's director, John Ratcliffe, was "moving swiftly" to ensure the workforce is "responsive to the administration's national security priorities."

"These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position CIA to deliver on its mission," she stated.

In March, the CIA terminated 80 recently hired probationary employees. Those working on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the agency were also removed. The CIA does not plan on any more mass firings to reach its reduction goals.

Upon retaking office in January, Trump immediately worked to dismantle woke DEI initiatives the former administration had embedded across the federal government.

Under the Biden administration in 2021, the CIA launched a social media campaign, Humans of CIA, which consisted of recruitment advertisements that aimed to increase the agency's diversity.

One ad featured an intelligence officer who referred to herself as a "woman of color" and a "cisgender Millennial, who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder."

"I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise," she declared.

Another commercial featured a CIA librarian who highlighted the agency's inclusive workplace.

"Growing up gay in a small southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family," he stated. "I always struggled with the idea that I might not be able to discuss my personal life at work. Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at CIA, and I noticed a rainbow on then-Director [John] Brennan's lanyard."

Conservatives slammed the agency's woke recruiting advertisements.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said, "If you're a Chinese communist, or an Iranian Mullah, or Kim Jong Un...would this scare you?"

"We've come a long way from Jason Bourne," he continued.

In a separate post, he added, "My point is that CIA agents should be bad-asses—not woke, fragile flowers needing safe spaces."

Donald Trump Jr. also criticized the CIA for going "full woke."

"China & Russia are laughing their asses off watching CIA go full woke. 'Cisgender.' 'Intersectional.' It's like @TheBabylonBee is handling CIA's comms. If you think about it, wokeness is the kind of twisted PSYOP a spy agency would invent to destroy a country from the inside out," he wrote.

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Go East, Young Man

I have known the author of this memoir, Professor Jerome Cohen, on and off for some decades through his son, Ethan Cohen, a top gallerist in New York who introduced the likes of Ai Weiwei to America. As part of the respect you show the parents of a friend, you don’t probe in detail about their history or achievements or stature in the world—appropriate interest is fine, but not too much direct questioning. They will tell you stuff if they want to. Well, as it turns out, there was a lot I wasn’t told.

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Trump drops 10,000 pages of RFK assassination files, exposing puzzling early death reports



Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that the Trump administration had released 10,000 new pages regarding the 1968 assassination of Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (N.Y.).

The long-since classified investigation documents were released as part of President Donald Trump's January 23 executive order directing the declassification of files on the assassinations of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, and Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

'In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers.'

"The Executive Order establishes the policy that, more than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims' families and the American people deserve the truth," read a White House fact sheet on the action.

During an April 10 Cabinet meeting, Gabbard told Trump she had "over 100 people working around the clock" scanning the relevant files.

"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before," she said.

Trump asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. how he felt about the news that the files on his father and uncle would be released in the coming days.

Kennedy responded, "I'm very gratified."

"I'm very grateful to you, Mr. President," he added.

On Friday morning, Gabbard told Fox News that the first batch of newly released files related to the government's investigation and "questions and theories that were being posed" concerning Sen. Kennedy's assassination.

The documents revealed that State Department cables were reporting on Kennedy’s death before it actually occurred.

Gabbard explained that the cables “showed different countries were sending messages to each other around Senator Kennedy’s assassination, saying that he had been assassinated, but that was before he was actually killed.”

"In my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers," Gabbard added.

"We're obviously not stopping here," she said. "We sent people out to hunt through different warehouses at the FBI and CIA, knowing there are likely other documents that have not yet been turned over to National Archives."

Gabbard noted that the second release would include more than 50,000 additional pages on the senator's assassination.

Kennedy Jr. responded to the document release, stating, "Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government."

"I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency," he added. "I'm grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents."

A White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "Nearly six decades have passed since the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and these historic files have been hidden from the American people all this time — until now."

"In the name of maximum transparency, President Trump has released over 10,000 pages of the RFK files with more to come," the spokesperson continued. "There has never been a more transparent president in the history of our country than President Donald J. Trump. Another promise made and promise kept."

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CIA backs dire wolf revival: Colossal CEO details fight against China’s superhuman agenda



Ben Lamm is the co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company that just resurrected the dire wolf after 10,000-13,000 years of extinction using DNA harvesting and gene editing technologies. The company is currently working on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo bird.

Lamm recently joined Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program” to explain the why behind this mad science operation, including the terrifying reason the CIA has a stake in the company.

The primary reason for the existence of Colossal Biosciences, Lamm says, is fighting the decline of biodiversity.

“We're going to lose up to 50% of biodiversity between now and 2050, and so we need new tools in the fight, right? We think it's better to have a de-extinction tool kit and not need it than not have a de-extinction tool kit and need it,” he says.

The resurrection of the dire wolf was specifically ignited because “there's not enough going on with wolf conservation.”

But Glenn makes a good point: Bringing back the dire wolf isn’t really conservation. It’s “[introducing] a species that's been gone for 10,000 years.”

Lamm says there’s no reason for concern, though.

“They are on a secure, expansive ecological preserve in the north, and if they ever go back into the wild, it will be in collaboration with the government as well as some of the tribes, and they would go back on secure private land, so they aren't going to be wilding dire wolves,” he explains.

However, Colossal Biosciences is also “building technology to save animals.”

“We were actually able to clone four red wolves with more genetic diversity than the existing 15 that are still left in the wild,” Lamm tells Glenn.

Even if the company is able to save existing species from extinction, there’s still the concern of the CIA funding such efforts. Why would an agency charged with ensuring national security be interested in gene editing technologies?

It’s because other countries, including “our adversaries,” are already in the biotech race, Lamm explains.

That’s something Glenn understands. He’s long preached about the importance of America staying ahead of China in the race to develop artificial intelligence for the purpose of national security.

But this is even bigger than AI. China is “trying to breed smarter humans, stronger humans” in order to have superior “fighters,” says Glenn, calling it “the stuff of Nazi movies.”

Lamm agrees, adding that China has admitted “the Beijing Genomics Institute is sequencing as many humans as possible. They used COVID as this ruse to pull in as many samples as possible, sequencing them, and then they said, ‘We're looking for the genes that make the smartest people, and we are going to engineer people.’”

While Colossal Biosciences “doesn’t do anything with humans,” it is developing technologies “that have applications to humans.”

“We are understanding from a 72,000-year-old skull what made a dire wolf bigger and stronger. … It had a bigger jaw and stronger muscles and denser bones. We can now understand that with our technologies and engineer that into its closest living relative, being the grey wolf, right? And so think about that same type of data applied to humans,” Lamm explains, noting that the “secretary of the interior just endorsed [Colossal Biosciences’] work.

Like artificial intelligence, “America has to lead in synthetic biology,” he says.

“Do you believe that the genetic editing tech that you are helping to design is going to be transferred to humans?” Glenn asks candidly.

“I do think that a lot of our technologies will be beneficial long-term to helping cure inherited disease states in humans,” says Lamm.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Report: Trump Admin Ousts Official Who Shepherded Biden’s Military Covid Jab Mandate

A federal official instrumental in advancing the Biden administration’s military Covid shot mandate has been fired, according to a new report. On Tuesday, Breitbart News’ Kristina Wong reported claims from an unnamed source that Terry Adirim, who previously worked at the Pentagon as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, “was recently fired” from a […]

Dire wolves resurrected from extinction! Bet you can't guess who wrote the check ...



Thirteen thousand years ago, dire wolves, the supersized, majestic canines made popular by HBO’s “Game of Thrones” series, went extinct. But thanks to modern technology, they’re now alive and well. Or so says Colossal Biosciences, the biotech company responsible for the groundbreaking achievement.

The firm claims that ancient DNA and genetic engineering are what’s behind this technological breakthrough. Now three puppies — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi, who were born via surrogacy by a generic gray wolf — are capturing the world’s attention.

Should we be excited or skeptical?

Glenn Beck says we should be quaking in our boots — but not because giant wolves might prowl the streets. It’s who’s funding Colossal Biosciences that should scare us.

“One of the investors that is really excited about just pouring money into Colossal Biosciences is the CIA,” says Glenn.

“First of all, they’ve got a budget to invest in companies? Sounds like a bad idea,” he chides.

Why would the CIA invest in a biotech company? What does gene editing have to do with foreign intelligence and national security?

Apparently a lot.

“They believe that they could CRISPR their way into bioengineering resilient organisms — you know like spy drones that are animals [or] enhancing human capabilities,” says Glenn.

“Picture a bioengineered animal, say a dire wolf, with tweaked senses used for surveillance or tracking in remote areas where drones might fail,” he adds.

Another reason for the CIA’s interest is the possibility of “ecological and geopolitical leverage.”

“Imagine reintroducing a species to destabilize a rival nation's agriculture or environment — say flooding a region with engineered pests or altering food chains,” says Glenn.

Reason number three is “biosecurity and threat assessment.”

Glenn explains that “if adversaries develop gene editing for hostile purposes — in other words a weaponized pathogen or super soldiers — the CIA needs to stay ahead.”

“Investing in Colossal gives them a front-row seat to cutting-edge biotech, letting them study its limits and vulnerabilities. They're not just funding it, they're learning how to defend against it or wield it themselves if necessary.”

So basically, it’s gain-of-function research but with dire wolves and wooly mammoths.

“If you weren't convinced the CIA is out of control, you might want to share this with your friends,” says Glenn.

To hear more about the CIA’s relationship with Colossal Biosciences, watch the episode above.

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Bus crash or big lie? Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s wild tale unraveled



Virginia Giuffre is not only an Australian-American advocate for sex trafficking victims but a survivor of sex trafficking at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.

Now, she’s made headlines again after claiming to have been hit by a school bus at 110 km/hr in Western Australia, leaving her with kidney failure and told by doctors that she had four days to live.

Her claims were written in a dramatic Instagram post that featured a photo of her bruised face as she was lying in a hospital bed.


“I won’t bore anyone with the details, but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can,” Giuffre wrote in the post.

“I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology. I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes,” she finished.

Since the post, she has now claimed via a family spokesperson that the Instagram post had been mistakenly posted to her public Instagram and was meant to be on her private Facebook page.

The bus driver has since come out to say the accident was blown out of proportion and that it was a “minor collision.” West Australian police have also confirmed there were “no reported injuries” following the incident.

Giueffre’s claims have understandably ignited a firestorm online.

“She said she had four days to live, people started all this speculation online, all kinds of conspiracies, ‘It was a CIA hit, it was an FBI hit, Clinton hit, Jeffrey Esptein’s still alive and he tried to kill her,’” Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” comments, skeptical of Giuffre’s story.

“That was a pretty sloppy hit if you just left it alone like that,” he adds.

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Is the Signal chat leak a CIA spy-op or deep-state SABOTAGE?



The Trump administration is denying incompetence following the “accidental” inclusion of a journalist in a secure group chat among high-ranking officials — but not everyone is convinced there isn’t far more to the story than we’re being told.

“Complete and total CIA op,” Jason Buttrill, chief writer and researcher for Glenn Beck, tells Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“It was right before the Trump administration started dropping bombs in Yemen. Then they were accused by the Atlantic of leaking war plans, which sounds very, very, very serious,” Gonzales says. “They said this was an accidental leak to Goldberg, who is, of course, TDS, or one of the biggest opposition journalists to the administration.”


“This is like the biggest stroke of luck in the history of strikes of luck for an opposition journalist ever,” Buttrill says. “Their initial reaction was ‘this is not legit’ or ‘we were being spoofed’ or something like that. But the moment they saw the bombs started falling, all other speculation just dropped.”

“This was not a mistake,” he continues, noting that conservatives are now trying to claim that it’s possible Goldberg was under the wrong name and that’s how he gained access to the chat.

“Somebody would have had to have done that,” he says, adding that “Signal has an interesting funding history.”

“I think they were called ‘The Open Whisper’ something, but they got millions of dollars from a government organization. That government organization has ties, or it’s underneath, Radio Free Asia. Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, those are CIA Cold War weapons from the Cold War. Direct ties and manipulation with the CIA,” Buttrill continues.

“We investigated ourselves and found that we don’t do that any more,” Gonzales chimes in, joking.

“And now, the luckiest strike in the history of lucky strikes happens to one of the biggest opposition journalists, where he’s like, ‘Oh, I just got added in, I have no idea, the contact was changed,’” Buttrill mocks, adding, “This is not a mistake; this is the deep state at work.”

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Trump’s JFK Files Release Is About Restoring Americans’ Trust In Government

The release of the JFK files was never about solving a conspiracy. It was about ushering in a new era of government transparency.

I called out the CIA on X — and then my account disappeared



Some say the Central Intelligence Agency is the world’s leading cause of “coincidences.”

This might be another one. Just as the government released thousands of JFK assassination files, I — a former CIA officer turned whistleblower — was suddenly blocked from posting reform proposals on social media.

The experience showed just how powerful X has become in the fight against deep-state corruption. Americans want their country back from those who have taken control.

I post regularly on X, sharing updates on CIA activity and government corruption. My account has 125,000 followers and delivers unfiltered information without paid promotion.

After 17 years in the CIA, including high-level assignments across multiple global stations, I know how the agency operates — and how often it violates the U.S. Constitution without consequence.

Since I began publicly exposing CIA corruption in 2010, I have created documents and posted videos about CIA misconduct. My computer crashes frequently — twice in the past four months — destroying all my data. Even my backup account on Carbonite failed to save this information. Recently, “someone” accessed my primary computer through the router and specifically targeted and corrupted only the files and videos related to the CIA, rendering them inaccessible.

My account on X has been a quick and protected way to get this information to Americans. In my book, “Twilight of the Shadow Government: How Transparency Will Kill the Deep State,” written with my courageous co-author Kent Heckenlively, we reveal the CIA’s criminal and unconstitutional operations for everyone to see. “Light dispels darkness,” as so many have observed. In the book, Kent and I lay out 12 steps that must be taken to reform the CIA.

Two weeks ago, on my X account, I spelled out 13 additional radical steps to reform the CIA and end its tyranny of secrecy once and for all. I posted each step back-to-back. These reforms are lethal to the CIA’s control over all three branches of our elected government — and the fear of reprisal against anyone who challenges its power.

Maybe it was the 13th step that annoyed the agency the most: “Legally indict and charge CIA officials who engage in a criminal conspiracy to silence whistleblowers, block information from Congress, or violate U.S. and constitutional law.” It just wouldn’t be the same old CIA any more if they couldn’t lie to Congress or our duly elected president.

The day after I posted the 13 steps, I received a warning from X stating I had violated its guidelines and was being suspended for multiple copyright violations. I was unable to log in and access my account. Four attempts to appeal the suspension resulted in a boilerplate response instructing me to log in to my account for further information.

Of course, I was unable to log in to do so.

What’s more, I could not follow any other X users or post comments on their pages. It was an endless loop of blockages. This occurred just as 80,000 pages of JFK assassination documents were released — a critical moment. I had prepared evidentiary posts indicating the CIA was involved in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. My position as a CIA officer who had worked in all four agency directorates — as well as being the only one to publicly challenge the state secrets privilege and publish a book about the history of the CIA without the agency's approval — made me unique among commentators.

Finally, I contacted my dear friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has reached the same conclusion regarding the CIA's culpability in the murder of his uncle — spelling out what had just happened. Since he is extremely busy with his new Cabinet post at Health and Human Services, I was unsure whether I would receive an answer.

Within a matter of hours, I received a text back from Bobby. He advised me that he had passed my text to James Musk — Elon’s cousin and an X executive. James responded immediately. After researching the matter, James advised me that X had not suspended @kevin_shipp. Some entity — perhaps the CIA? — had created a fraudulent @kevin_shipp account, which caused an override of the true account and sent me a fictitious X community guidelines violation along with multiple copyright violation claims on the 13 steps to CIA reform.

James uncovered this malicious attack in just under two hours. Following his guidance on how to regain access to the real account, @kevin_shipp was back up, and all 13 steps were there and open for comments.

What a relief to see my first post go live again — just one word: “Test.” My co-author quickly shared the story on X, paying to boost the post. It reached 1.6 million people.

The experience showed just how powerful X has become in the fight against deep-state corruption. Americans want their country back from those who have taken control.

Watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and James Musk respond so swiftly and boldly to a targeted attack on my account was inspiring and reassuring. That night, I slept peacefully, knowing I wasn’t alone in standing up for our republic.

This fight isn’t mine alone — it belongs to all of us. And with people like Kennedy and Musk stepping up, we’re finally pushing back.