They say the buyout offer is in line with a massive makeover of the US government embarked on by the Trump administration ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development declared almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave after the Trump administration made changes to the organization ...

The federal government has also disbanded USAID which supports international relief efforts. So far about 20,000 federal workers have accepted the buyout.

While many federal organizations have extended similar offers, the CIA is the first major national security agency to do so.