Trump double on Russia. The Spies shake their heads in disbelief.

"When you steal secrets, and these guys talk about the Trump administration, then these guys are going to be in a tough place," said Daniel Hoffman, a former CIA operations officer who served in Moscow

Yet Mr. Hoffman disputed the idea that the charged atmosphere would create a morale crisis in the CIA He said that even during the first years of the war in Iraq, when many officers of intelligence fought with the White House for the intensity of the insurgency, espionage functions continued.

"We recruited spies, we stole secrets, we did the work," he said.

Trump has been at odds with most national security institutions since the beginning of his administration, with him and his allies seeing members of intelligence agencies as part of a so-called deep state opposed to his policy.

Trump had planned to ask Mr. Putin at the White House since their meeting in Helsinki, said two people familiar with the event.But bringing Mr. Putin, a former KGB According to James R. Clapper Jr., a former director of national intelligence services, the Russians are going to leaning both to collect intelligence and to frustrate what we do to collect intelligence against them, "said Clapper. "Similarly, we will bow down to collect against them, and to thwart their collection efforts against us."

Some intelligence officials reacted with resignation to Mr. Trump's plan. While previous presidents would have consulted them about the risks of such a meeting, public servants are increasingly convinced that Mr. Trump does not fully absorb their briefs, even when they are adapted to his tastes with mannequins, physical demonstrations and extensive use of photographs

Intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Mr. Trump chooses his findings to reinforce the decisions he has already made , said several officials of the administration during interviews. They noted that in the case of North Korea, it has resumed evidence last summer of increasing nuclear capabilities to support its threats of military action; now that he is continuing a thaw in relations with North Korea, he ignores similar evidence.