[Prost1]

Posted by Prost1 to woodb01
On News/Activism 05/05/2006 7:13:29 PM PDT · 90 of 101

There is a recent report that approx 25,000 people have left the CIA since Porter took over.
If it was 100,000 at the beginning, that leaves 75,000.
Maybe his job was nearly complete.

Again, we need confirmation on the number, but that is the latest.

[txhurl]

That is a HUGE number! Was he poisoning the coffee these 18 months and nobody noticed?

Were these positions refilled, or attritioned I wonder?

[Enchante]

The 100,000 figure seems absurd, I've never seen an estimate of CIA employment above 30,000. Most estimates range between 10,000 and 20,000 and may depend upon how many contractors there really are, etc. I doubt that more than a couple of thousand have left in the past 18 months, though I certainly have no way to judge. I don't know how many have left under Goss, and a certain number (say 1/20??) would retire or move to other pursuits each year anyway, no matter who is DCI.

http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/ciastaff.htm