The CIA is looking to recruit new Chinese spies with video clips of social media

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The CIA released two video clip in Chinese on YouTube and other social media channels in a campaign to sow disappointment between members of the Chinese Communist Party and enhance efforts to employ spies in China.

The US Intelligence Agency released videos on social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, on Thursday. They are entitled “Why did you contact the CIA: to control my destinyAnd “and”Why did you contact the CIA: For a better life“.

The move follows a previous effort to release videos in Russian to urge elites in that country that is not satisfied with President Vladimir Putin and its large scale for Ukraine to become intelligence assets of the CIA.

Six months ago, the Central Intelligence Agency released videos in Chinese, Persian and Korean that presented the text Instructions to call The US Intelligence Agency.

But the new posts are the first videos in which the narrators express their concern about the Chinese political system – and the leaders and colleagues disappear – explaining the reason for their contact with the agency.

“These types of recruitment videos are unprecedented for the CIA China,” said Dennis Wilder, the former head of China’s analysis at the CIA.

Wilder said that videos sought to exploit fears among senior CCP members about President Xi Jinping’s campaign to purify officials, including prominent disinfection operations at the Chinese army summit.

the Recently detected the financial times Shi has cleared the general and Widong, the two officers in the People’s Liberation Army.

“Beijing will look at a specific escalation of the espionage war with the United States and double its huge programs for bloc and search for US spies,” Wilder added.

In one of the video, the narrator says: “I see my position rising inside the party where those over me are placed aside. But I now realize that my fate is unstable.

In the second, he says: “The failure of our leaders to fulfill these repeated promises of prosperity has become a well -known secret … The most difficult part of the trip is the first step. It is time to start working towards my dreams.”

China prevents its citizens from accessing YouTube, Facebook and other Western social media platform, but people can display CIA videos using VPN that facilitate overcoming Internet control restrictions.

The jobs are part of an attempt by the CIA to rebuild the spy network in China after the country’s Ministry of Security for more than a decade ago Imprisonment or execution of dozens of Chinese citizens Spying for the United States. Beijing discovered their identities after discovering secret communication systems used by the CIA with their origins.

In 2023, CIA Director Bill Burns said that the agency “has made” progress in rebuilding the spy network in China, saying: “We are working hard over recent years to ensure that we have the ability to strong human intelligence.”

China has strengthened efforts to clarify foreign espionage, including expanding the anti -spying law to cover a wide range of activities and breaking companies that calm the interface and other business research in sensitive areas.

MSS launched a campaign to urge citizens to report suspicious activities and train people and companies to share less public information. In 2023, it was established an officially published WeCAT account, which regularly publishes cases that involve alleged spy by both Chinese and foreign citizens, as well as guidance on identifying and preventing spy.