CIA Makes New Push To Recruit Chinese Military Officers as Informants

Source: Slashdot

CIA Recruitment Video

An anonymous reader shares a report: Just weeks after a dramatic purge of China’s top general, the CIA is moving to capitalize on any resulting discord with a new public video targeting potential informants in the Chinese military. The U.S. spy agency on Thursday rolled out the video depicting a disillusioned mid‑level Chinese military officer, in the latest U.S. step in a campaign to ramp up human intelligence gathering on Washington’s strategic rival.

It follows a similar effort last May that focused on fictional figures within China’s ruling Communist Party and provided detailed Chinese‑language instructions on how to securely contact U.S. intelligence. CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement that the agency’s videos had reached many Chinese citizens and that it would continue offering Chinese government officials an “opportunity to work toward a brighter future together.”