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CIA launches social media campaign aimed at recruiting Russians as spies

The US has launched a campaign targeting a social media network popular in Russia & intending to recruit informants & spies

Newsroom May 17 12:12

A new social media campaign has been launched by America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which aims to encourage citizens of Russia to start working as spies for American intelligence.

The campaign is centred around the chat app Telegram, which has reportedly become popular amongst Russians because, unlike other platforms, it isn’t blocked by the government there.

The new recruitment campaign seems to target Russians working within the country’s government and attempts to use the viewers’ sense of Russian patriotism and concern for the future to encourage them to turn, notes the Associated Press.

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“The CIA wants to know the truth about #Russia, and we are looking for reliable people who know and can tell us this truth,” one Russian-language post on the campaign’s Telegram channel reads. “Your information may be more valuable than you think.”

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