CIA Director John Ratcliffe is expected to welcome Elon Musk on Monday to discuss government efficiency at the spy agency.

Mr. Ratcliffe shared his plans on X, reposting independent journalist Catherine Herridge, who first published news of the visit.

The meeting with the CIA comes amid concerns about how Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may help trim the spy agencies’ workforce.

Asked at a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing last week about DOGE’s impact, Mr. Ratcliffe said DOGE had not yet had any effect at CIA.

“Given the fact that as of this date, no one from DOGE has been on the CIA campus and I’ve had no direct communication with DOGE other than conversations with Elon Musk at Cabinet meetings, I would say the impact is zero,” Mr. Ratcliffe said at the hearing.

Mr. Musk, however, is no stranger to the intelligence community.

For example, the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees America’s spy satellites, said last week it launched its new NROL-69 mission aboard a rocket from Mr. Musk’s SpaceX. The NRO said the mission represented its first launch with SpaceX for a government program that is “aimed at ensuring continued assured access to space for national security missions.”

But spy satellites and human espionage, CIA’s specialty, are two very different things.

Intelligence community personnel are unsure of how exactly the Trump administration’s efforts to downsize government bloat may affect their jobs and their agencies’ broader workforce development and retention efforts.

Some consternation arose after the White House reportedly ordered the CIA to produce a list of new hires to help comply with President Trump’s directive downsizing the federal workforce.

Former CIA officer Sue Miller told the “SpyTalk” podcast earlier this month that there is a pause in firings.

Ms. Miller, who said she recently retired but remains a contractor focused on training, urged Mr. Trump to maintain new hires and push out longer-serving employees at CIA.

“Start offering early retirements, start getting rid of some of the people at the top,” Ms. Miller said on “SpyTalk.” “Don’t shoot yourself in the foot by getting rid of the smartest people who know AI, who know how to get into things that I don’t know how to do now.”

Ms. Miller said younger officers specifically showed their value in their efforts to counter China.

“The best ideas, when I was in charge of the China Mission Center, came from the youngest officers,” she said. “And they worked. It was amazing.”