Mizuki Yayoi: CIA launches slick ads on Youtube to recruit ‘Disillusioned’ Chinese Officials as SPIES… Yes, no secret, nothing stealthy at all

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The CIA is posting slick videos online to try to recruit Chinese officials as spies

The CIA Using YouTube To Recruit ‘Disillusioned’ Chinese Officials

The United States Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA as it is more commonly known, is looking to recruit disillusioned Chinese officials as “spies” for the USA. That fact isn’t especially newsworthy, as the intelligence community is always trying to recruit foreign individuals.

What is noteworthy is the means the CIA is how going about it. The agency produced a video, or rather two, which were posted on the video sharing service YouTube and other social media platforms on Thursday that were aimed at disillusioned officials with the Chinese government. The Mandarin-language videos followed similar efforts earlier this year that encouraged Russians to share secrets with U.S. officials.

“Today, the CIA released Mandarin-language videos aimed at recruiting Chinese officials to steal secrets,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement. “No adversary in the history of our Nation has presented a more formidable challenge or capable strategic competitor than the Chinese Communist Party. Our Agency must continue responding to this threat with urgency, creativity, and grit, and these videos are just one of the ways we are doing this.”

CIA launches ads to recruit Chinese spies

Today we released two videos in Mandarin aimed at recruiting Chinese officials. @CIADirector John Ratcliffe: “One of the primary roles of the CIA is to collect intelligence…by recruiting assets that can help us steal secrets.”

View the videos here:https://t.co/mhQbzet5X2 https://t.co/CzEsvnAp0n

— CIA (@CIA) May 1, 2025

Videos Targeting China

The release of these new videos comes about six months after the CIA shared a text-only video in Mandarin that explained to Chinese citizens how to reach out to the CIA via the “dark web,” NBC News reported. According to the CIA, the video has been seen around 900,000 times since it was first released.

This new content is very much aimed at Chinese Communist Party officials. The first video is meant to speak to lower level officials within the CCP, highlighting the wealth gap that currently exists in the People’s Republic of China between party elites and the general populace; while the second shows a more senior party official at a formal dinner who believes his colleagues are maneuvering against him, a not too uncommon scenario in the RPC.