Some newer employees have been summoned to an off-site location and asked to surrender their credentials.
The government cuts ordered by the Trump administration have hit the C.I.A.
Some officers hired in the last two years have been summoned to a location away from the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., and asked to surrender their credentials to security personnel, according to three people briefed on the firings.
The firings are designed to cull the ranks of newly hired officers, who are also called “probationary employees.”
A spokeswoman for the agency confirmed that some officers hired in the past two years had been fired.
It is not clear how many of the officers will be let go, but people familiar with the effort said that not all recent hires would be dismissed.
The officers were not told why they were being summoned, but amid the firings across the U.S. government, few were in doubt about what was going on.
In fact, some young agency officers working inside Langley have been hesitant to answer their phones, worried that it will be a call from security asking them to report to an off-site location. The firings have devastated morale, and cut productivity this week, according to some of the people briefed on the situation.