The US Central Intelligence Agency has released a cunningly produced Russian-language video to try to persuade Russian intelligence operatives to switch sides and work as double agents for Washington.
CIA Director William Burns said in July that discontent among some Russians over the war in Ukraine created a rare opportunity to recruit spies and the CIA was not letting it pass.
The video, released on the official CIA channel at Xtrying to appeal to what it suggests are patriotic Russians working in the intelligence community who may feel betrayed by so-called corruption among the elite and the poor way the Russian armed forces are equipped and supplied.
“People around you may not want to hear the truth. But we do. You are powerless,” said the video, the latest in a series of recruitment videos targeting Russia, before detailing how to contact the CIA.
Accompanied by melancholic classical music, the main fictional character of the video is an unnamed 35-year-old male employee of the Russian military intelligence agency who considers himself a Russia-loving patriot and has served as a paratrooper.
“Do I have enough courage to face this betrayal?” the video shows him saying before he says that he has realized the real enemy is inside Russia in the form of the corrupt leadership and elite.
CIA Director William Burns said in July that discontent among some Russians over the war in Ukraine created a rare opportunity to recruit spies. REUTERS The US CIA has released a Russian-language video to try to persuade Russian intelligence operatives to work as double agents for Washington. Twitter/CIA
“The top leadership has sold the country for palaces and yachts at a time when our soldiers are munching on rotten potatoes and shooting from prehistoric weapons. Our people have to pay bribes just to find work,” the man said as a video clip of a bleak Russian winter intercuts with images of luxury official limousines and rich Russians toasting.
The fictional character says his patriotism drove him to act and work with the CIA, and the final shot of the video depicts a well-dressed man calling the CIA on a cell phone from a snowy yard.
KREMLIN UPGRADES VIDEO
The Kremlin says everything is being done to ensure the Russian military has the equipment it needs to succeed in what Moscow calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
It has rejected various false allegations of corruption and dismissed the video.
“People around you may not want to hear the truth. But we do. You are powerless,” said the video, the latest in a series of recruitment videos targeting Russia. Twitter/CIA
“You know, this practice is quite common, intelligence agencies around the world very often use media and social networks to recruit new employees. And they do it all the time, the CIA does it every year,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
Peskov suggested the CIA had made a mistake with distribute videos on Xformerly known as Twitter, which is banned in Russia and can be accessed only by using virtual private networks, many of which are also banned.
“Someone needs to tell the CIA that in our country (Russian social network) VKontakte is much more popular than the banned X. And the VKontakte audience is much larger,” Peskov said.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
