The Central Intelligence Agency has offered buyouts to its entire workforce in an apparent bid to align with President Donald Trump's ambition to purge government departments.

CIA agents who accept the buyout conditions would receive eight months of pay, along with all their benefits and entitlements, in exchange for their resignations. 

Two million federal employees were last week offered a generous buyout scheme under the new Trump administration, as he looks to cut waste and reshape federal offices across the nation.

The agency does not disclose its budget or the number of people it employs. 

A CIA spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal that the decision to offer the buyout broadly across the whole department was part of an effort to 'infuse the agency with renewed energy.'

The agency is also freezing job hiring, and any conditional offers already sent out have been paused. Many of those are likely to now be rescinded, insiders warned.

The report of buyout offers is in line with a massive makeover of the U.S. government embarked on by the Trump administration, which has fired and sidelined hundreds of civil servants in first steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing more loyalists.

Newly appointed CIA Director John Ratcliffe gave staff a blunt warning after he was sworn in following Trump's inauguration.

He vowed to bring about harder-edge spying and covert efforts to tackle drug cartels and Chinese adversaries. 

'To the brave CIA officers listening around the world, if all of that sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference,' he said. 

'If it doesn't then it's time to find a new line of work.' 

A CIA spokesperson said: 'Director Ratcliffe is moving swiftly to ensure the CIA workforce is responsive to the Administration's national security priorities.

'These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position the CIA to deliver on its mission.' 

Meanwhile, the two million federal employees who were initially offered the buyout scheme have just two days to make their decision under the current deadline set by officials.