CIA’s Brain Drain: Since 9/11, Some Top Officials Have Moved To Private Sector -- Washington PostIn the decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, private intelligence firms and security consultants have peeled away veterans from the top reaches of the CIA, hiring scores of longtime officers in large part to gain access to the burgeoning world of intelligence contracting.
At least 91 of the agency’s upper-level managers have left for the private sector in the past 10 years, according to data compiled by The Washington Post. Several of the top positions have turned over multiple times in that period: In addition to three directors, the CIA has lost four of its deputy directors for operations, three directors of its counterterrorism center and all five of the division chiefs who were in place the day of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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My Comment: The budgets for intelligence have skyrocketed since 9/11. Companies are aware of this mother-load, and are hiring the personnel who have experience and/or contacts to get a piece of this pie. Since they are offering salaries that dwarf what the CIA and other intelligence agencies pay .... the temptation to jump ship is impossible to resist .... hence the brain drain.