India, May 3 -- The US government is planning to shrink the workforce of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other major American spy units in the upcoming days, media reports said.

According to reports, the White House is eyeing the reduction of 1,200 staff in the CIA.

The administration recently informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill that it intends to reduce the CIA's workforce by about 1,200 personnel over several years and cut thousands more from other parts of the US intelligence community, including at the National Security Agency, a highly secretive service that specializes in cryptology and global electronic espionage, a person familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

The CIA did not publicly disclose the size of i...