The Kremlin has responded forcefully to the CIA launching an official channel on the messaging app Telegram featuring a dramatized video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russian civilians as spies.
May 17, 2023, 4:38 PMIn a still from a Central Intelligence Agency video aimed at recruiting Russians spies, someone is shown contacting the CIA on their phone.The Kremlin has responded forcefully to the CIA launching an official channel on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored by Russians, featuring a dramatized video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russian civilians as spies.
In a still from a Central Intelligence Agency video aimed at recruiting Russians spies, someone is shown contacting the CIA on their phone.The Russian narrator acknowledges the "reality we speak about in a whisper" and laments "why the lives of some are worth more than others." At the conclusion of the video, he's decides to speak up: "This is my Russia. This will always be my Russia. I will endure. My family will endure.
"They're feeling compelled by the Russian government's unjust war right now to reach us, but we just want them to do so as securely as possible…[The video] is meant to convey more emotion," the official said on condition of not being named. "Walk-ins are absolutely some of the most lucrative intelligence cases in the history of the agency. It's one of those quiet success stories that no one on the outside ever really knows about," Blocker said.Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE
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