US President-Elect Donald Trump intends to reduce the number of US intelligence agencies, including CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, RIA News reports quoting Wall Street Journal and the sources, close to the future president.

Trump will take office on January 20.

«According to Trump’s team, US intelligence world becomes absolutely politicized”, the edition quotes the words of its source. They all should «lose weight». The purpose (of innovations) will be to restructure them and the way they interact», the edition quotes the words of its source.

In particular, he specifies that Trump plans to reduce the number of employees of CIA’s Executive Office and simultaneously increase the number of employees «at the local level» in the whole world.

According to edition’s data, Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn, who will serve as the National Security Advisor, and Republican Mike Pompeo, whom the President-Elect wants to appoint as the CIA Director in his coming administration, will participate in the development of plans of reforms.

The message about the plans of reforms appeared following the sharp criticism towards Trump from the incumbent administration, Democrats in the Congress, as well as some former employees of US intelligence agencies. The criticism was caused mainly by the skeptical attitude of the President-Elect to the opinions of US intelligence, which accused Russian authorities of hacking US computer systems for the purpose of interfering with presidential elections in the country in 2016 and helping Trump to win.