The CIA released on Thursday two videos in Chinese to convince authorities in China to leak secrets to the United States, in the agency’s latest public effort to intensify human intelligence collection about Washington’s strategic rival.
The measure occurs after CIA launched in October, a campaign to recruit new informants in China, Iran and North Korea, publishing online instructions on how to contact the agency safely, following what the agency said was a successful effort to recruit Russians.
The CIA is confident that the videos are managing to overtake China’s “big firewall” and reaching the target audience.
“If it wasn’t working, we wouldn’t be making more videos,” an CIA employee told Reuters, adding that China is the agency’s main intelligence priority in a “real generational competition” between US and China.
The two short videos, published on CIA social networks, show fictional scenes in which a senior Chinese Communist Party employee and younger civil servant, with access to confidential information, are disappointed with the Chinese system and seek contact with CIA.
The China Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for commentary on the videos, but has previously accused the United States of conducting a systematic disinformation campaign against China and said any attempt to sow the division between the Chinese people and the Chinese communist party would fail.
This content was originally published in Cia releases new videos seeking to attract Chinese authorities on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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