The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has offered severance packages to all its employees.
The intelligence service is also freezing the recruitment of new employees.
The aim is to make the intelligence service better serve the goals of President Donald Trump’s administration, a CIA spokesman says.
The CIA is the first security agency to take part in the Trump administration’s cuts.
The administration has already offered severance packages to about two million federal employees.
The CIA is responsible for US foreign intelligence. It does not publicly disclose the number of its employees.