The US Central Intelligence Agency bolstered efforts to convince Russians to leak their country’s secrets on Monday, posting an emotional video on Telegram aimed at people frustrated with the situation under President Vladimir Putin. | AFP
“The CIA wants to know the truth about Russia, and we are looking for reliable people who can tell us this truth,” the agency writes.The CIA said it was hoping to contact people from intelligence, diplomatic, science and technology, as well as other fields, and was interested in all kinds of information, including political and economic.
An agency official told Agence France-Presse that while they had made the pitch on other social media before, they were now focusing on encrypted Telegram because it is the main medium for Russians to share and obtain information and news, about everything from politics to the war in Ukraine. The CIA hopes that providing a simple but clear way to leak information via the dark web will convince cautious Russians to take the next step.
“Our aim is to provide avenues that are as secure as possible for them to contact us,” the official said on grounds of anonymity. The official stressed the United States was not seeking to provoke a revolt or regime change, but just hoping that some Russians might see it as a way to help their country move forward.The official said similar outreach on other social media, much of it blocked now in Russia, did have results.Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
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