The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States today launched a new campaign to recruit informants from China, Iran and North Korea, adding to its successful efforts to recruit informants from Russia, Reuters reported, citing BTA, citing a CIA spokesman.
The main US spy agency has released instructions in Mandarin, Farsi and Korean to its profiles on the platforms X, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, LinkedIn, and ;Dark Web" on how one can contact her securely, her spokesperson said in a statement.
"Our efforts on this front have been successful in Russia, and we want to make sure that individuals in other authoritarian regimes know that we are open for business," the spokesman said, adding that the CIA is adapting to increased restrictions on countries and global surveillance.
The CIA's appetite for intelligence has grown amid China's expanding cooperation with Russia and Iran and the strengthening of China's regional military power. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are known among the US intelligence community as "hard targets" - countries whose governments are difficult to penetrate.
The CIA began recruiting Russian informants in 2022 by posting Russian-language texts on its social media accounts on how Russians could contact the agency securely, followed in 2023 by videos.< /p>