Two more top officials at the CIA's clandestine unit are retiring in the latest sign of upheaval in the agency under its new director Peter Goss.
The two officials have headed operations in Europe and the Far East and were in the highest level of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, the powerful unit that recruits foreign spies and conducts covert operations overseas.
An intelligence official said there would be no public announcement on the retirement of the two chiefs and that neither could be identified because they were working under cover.
A former intelligence official described the two as "very senior guys" who were stepping down because they did not feel comfortable with new management.
Capitol Hill Blue articleThe two officials have headed operations in Europe and the Far East and were in the highest level of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, the powerful unit that recruits foreign spies and conducts covert operations overseas.
An intelligence official said there would be no public announcement on the retirement of the two chiefs and that neither could be identified because they were working under cover.
A former intelligence official described the two as "very senior guys" who were stepping down because they did not feel comfortable with new management.
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President Bush last week ordered the CIA director to increase by 50 percent the number of intelligence analysts and officers in the clandestine unit as part of a push to strengthen U.S. intelligence operations.
Increase it by half with people who are loyal to the administration. Some strengthening of intelligence that will be.
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