The CIA Using YouTube To Recruit 'Disillusioned' Chinese Officials
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The CIA is recruiting disillusioned Chinese officials as spies via YouTube; two Mandarin-language videos were released on May 2, 2025; CIA Director John Ratcliffe emphasized the urgency of countering the Chinese Communist Party; previous recruitment efforts included a text-only video seen 900,000 times; the campaign targets lower-level CCP officials, highlighting the wealth gap in China; political purges by Xi Jinping create fertile ground for recruitment; the CIA's approach reflects challenges in human intelligence operations due to surveillance; the campaign aims to plant doubt among disillusioned bureaucrats; experts suggest Beijing may respond with increased censorship and nationalist propaganda.
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