2023-05-16 11:03:47
“Is this the life I dreamed of? Is this the path I have chosen? “. It is with these questions that a CIA video begins, first broadcast on Telegram this Monday evening, and on Twitter, YouTube or Instagram since. The objective: to try to speak to Russians, in their native language, in order to encourage them to join the services of the American intelligence agency.
In the images, a father and a mother are filmed at home and then at work – in a profession that seems linked to the government. A woman then appears, in her car, inspecting the CIA contact form on her cell phone. “We will live with dignity, thanks to my actions”, assures the voiceover. “It will always be my Russia. I will resist, ”he said again.
The war in Ukraine has created a unique opportunity to recruit new Russian spies, the CIA has disclosed to CNN. The idea behind this video is, in particular, to collect information from people who do not necessarily know that they have potentially useful information. In particular Russians working in cyber, tech, finance… “We need people in all economic fields, we need to know what is happening in this country”, insisted James Olson, former head of the counterintelligence, with the American television channel.
The FBI also asks for it
“Contacts are coming in” since the start of the war in Ukraine added a CIA official, specifying that the agency would not have released this video if it had not already had some success with the Russians. According to CNN, the FBI has also tried to recruit spies among people who cross regularly from the United States to Russian territory.
According to the CIA official interviewed anonymously by CNN, the idea behind this advertisement is also to “demystify” the agency’s recruitment process.
Despite the current period of instability, the CIA assured the television channel that it was not a question of recruiting spies within the framework of the war in Ukraine – which is not mentioned – but rather to obtain information on timeless themes.
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