WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): The director of the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, the National Security Agency, was fired Thursday, according to two current and one former U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, according to the officials.

Noble was reassigned to a job within the Pentagon’s Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. The NSA is part of the department.

Haugh, who assumed his dual position just over a year ago, was traveling on Thursday and could not be reached for comment. Sean Parnell, a spokesman for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, did not respond to a request for comment. The current and former officials said they did not know the reason for Haugh’s dismissal or Noble’s reassignment.

The named acting NSA director is Lt. Gen. William J. Hartmann, who was the Cyber Command deputy, one of the officials said. Sheila Thomas, who was the executive director at the NSA, was named acting deputy, the official said.

Haugh last month hosted Trump adviser and U.S. DOGE Service head Elon Musk at the NSA’s Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters — Musk’s first known visit to a U.S. intelligence agency.