The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has denied that as many as 1,000 of its agents are being transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
CNN reported on March 22 that acting ATF Director Kash Patel, who is also FBI director, was preparing to move the ATF agents and cut ATF’s workforce by a third. This included sending a couple of hundred agents to deal with border security.
As of 2023, ATF has 5,281 employees with 2,597 of them as special agents.
ATF spokesperson Johnny Michael told The Epoch Times that 150 ATF agents will move temporarily from the agency’s field offices to others as part of its mission to fight “violent crime, gang activity, transnational organized crime, firearms trafficking, and narcotics trafficking along the southern border and in other regions of the country most severely impacted by violent crime.”...
