Exclusive: CIA -Director John Ratcliffe his agents warned of “changes” to come under his leadership in a memo obtained by Fox News Digital.
“There will be changes during my term of office as director,” the new leader of America’s top spy agency wrote personnel message in an agency -wide. Ratcliffe currently assesses all top staff and plans to put its own fingerprints at the senior level of the desk, has learned FOX News Digital.
“We will collect intelligence in every corner of the world, regardless of how dark or difficult. We will produce insightful, objective, all-source analysis, which never allow political or personal prejudices to limit our opinion or infect our products, “Ratcliffe went on,” Ratcliffe continued in his e -mail.
“And we will take secret action on the direction of the president, taking place that no one else can go and do things that nobody else can do.”
CIA director John Ratcliffe warned his agents of “changes” to come under his leadership of the CIA. (Getty Images)
While agents do work in what Ratcliffe defined as the “most challenging national security environment in the history of our nation,” he promised that the CIA would be the “ultimate meritocracy.”
“Our shared mission will bind us together.”
A source that was familiar with the thinking of Ratcliffe said: “This was a message to the workforce of the agency that the John Brennan era, the Gina Haspel, the eras of promoting left -wing political agendas or undermining the President – Those days are over. ”
Haspel was president Donald TrumpThe CIA director from 2018 to 2021 – while Ratcliffe was the director of National Intelligence of Trump. Brennan led the office under former President Barack Obama.
“I am sure that some of the political activists will rub in the wrong way, but there are many red -blooded, mission -oriented agency officers who read and encourage him,” the source added.
Ratcliffe is also looking for ways to streamline the many technically focused offices of the desk-the directorate of digital innovation; Directorate of Science and Technology; Transnational and technological mission center; Office of the Chief Technology Officer; And directorate of analysis, which has developed AI-driven tools to set out clear lines of authority and tasks.
“Nobody comes to CIA to be someone. Our successes remain hidden. Even our medals are presented behind closed doors, our sacrifices that are commemorated by stars on a marble wall. But each of those stars represents someone who wanted to do something, regardless of or or or or Regardless of whether something wanted to do, history would know their name, “Ratcliffe went on.
A source that is familiar with the thinking of CIA director John Ratcliffe promised a different direction for the best spy agency of the nation than under Gina Hask, CIA director during the first Trump administration. (Reuters)
“That is what makes this place special. That is what we have to keep.”
Ratcliffe was confirmed last Thursday by the Senate in a vote of 74-25.
Among his new director, the CIA released a new assessment of the COVID-19-OORTPRONG That promotes a laboratory origin with ‘low trust’.
The assessment was ordered by former president Joe Biden’s National security adviser Jake Sullivan in function in function by the end of Biden’s time.
John Ratcliffe confirmed as the next CIA director
President Donald Trump’s candidate for CIA director, John Ratcliffe, appears for a hearing of the senate information about Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
The agency has maintained for years that it did not have enough intelligence to conclude or Covid-19 has originated In a laboratory or a wet market in Wuhan, China.
Ratcliffe recently told Breitbart News that he no longer wanted the CIA “on the sidelines” of the debate about the origin of COVID-19. He said for a long time that he believes that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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“I had the opportunity on my first day to make the public an assessment that actually took place in the Biden administration, so it cannot be accused of being politics,” he told Morning Morning Futures “host Maria Bartiromo.
“And the CIA has assessed that the most likely cause of this pandemic that caused so much destruction all over the world was due to a laboratory -related incident in Wuhan, so we will continue to investigate that.”
