Now only one squad with 12 agents focuses on the mob, a person briefed on those changes said.
Salon's staff was being briefed on the changes on Monday afternoon.
The agency said it had been briefed on the changes by Tesla.
The firm's regulators have been briefed on these changes, and Credit Suisse has retained its ability to claw back compensation in certain circumstances, the person briefed on the matter said.
Lisa Caputo, Citigroup's chief marketing officer, is expected to take expanded responsibilities steering a new council, on which Mr. Pandit will sit, that will manage and position the global Citi brand, people briefed on the changes said.
But UBS, the Swiss bank, is doing exactly that as it looks for new ways to compensate its investment bankers, two people who have been briefed on the changes said Sunday.
Labor reacted cautiously, saying it had yet to be briefed on the changes, would like to offer bipartisan support but wanted to ensure the need for security was balanced with the right to privacy.
Mr. Karzai's deputy national security adviser, Shaida M. Abdali, said in an interview on Tuesday that officials had been briefed on the changes in the coming directive but that they would wait to see how the guidelines were put into effect.
There are already firm plans to eliminate The Journal's Marketplace section, containing articles on business trends and technology, in the first half of next year, with a new section taking its place, according to people at Dow Jones and the News Corporation who have been briefed on the changes.
