Cia seeks to recruit new Chinese spies with social media videos

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The CIA has published two videos in Chinese language on YouTube and other social media channels in a campaign to sow disappointment among members of the Chinese Communist Party and increase efforts to recruit spies in China.

The United States Intelligence Agency on Thursday published videos on social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook. Is titled “Why did I contacted the CIA: to take control of my destiny“And”Why did I contacted the CIA: for a better life”

The movement follows a previous effort to throw Russian videos to urge the elites in this country that are not satisfied with President Vladimir Putin and his large-scale invasion of Ukraine to become intelligence assets for the CIA.

Six months ago, the CIA published videos in Chinese, Farsi and Korean who provided text Instructions to contact The United States Intelligence Agency.

But new publications are the first videos in which narrators express their concern about the Chinese political system – and the leaders and colleagues fade – to explain why they contacted the agency.

“These types of recruiting videos are not preceded by CIA China operations,” said Dennis Wilder, former China Chief of China.

Wilder said the videos aimed to exploit the concerns between the main members of the PCC about President Xi Jinping’s campaign to purge officials, including high -level purges at the top of the Chinese army.

It Financial Times has recently revealed That Xi had purified General He Weidong, the number of two officers in the People’s Liberation Army.

“Beijing will see it as a decisive escalation of the Espionage War with the United States and will redo its already massive counterparts programs and the search for spies in the United States,” added Wilder.

In a video, the narrator says, “I see my position rising inside the party, because those above me are on the other hand. But now I realize that my destination is just as precarious. My greatest fear is that my family’s fate is linked to mine. I have to have a backup plan.”

In the second, he says: “The failure of our leaders in fulfilling these repeated promises of prosperity has become a known secret … The hardest part of a trip is the first step. It’s time to start working on my own dreams.”

China prevents its citizens from accessing YouTube, Facebook and other western social network platforms, but people can watch CIA videos through a VPN that facilitates the obtaining of censorship restrictions on the Internet.

Places are part of the CIA effort to reconstruct their espionage network in China after the Ministry of Security of the State of the country more than a decade ago imprisoned or executed dozens of Chinese citizens Suspicion of spying through the United States. Beijing discovered his identities after discovering the covert communications systems that CIA operators used with their assets.

In 2023, the director of the CIA, Bill Burns, said that the agency had “advanced” by rebuilding its espionage network in China, saying: “We are working hard in recent years to ensure that we have a strong human intelligence capacity.”

China has increased its efforts to root foreign espionage, including the extension of a law against espionage to cover a wider range of activities and erase due companies that do due diligence and other business research in sensitive fields.

The MSS has launched a campaign to urge citizens to report suspicious activities and train people and companies to share less public information. In 2023, he created an official Wechat account that regularly publishes cases that involve an alleged espionage by both Chinese and foreigners, along with management on the identification and prevention of espionage.