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China calls CIA videos 'absurd' attempt to recruit spies
- China’s top intelligence agency criticized a recent CIA effort to recruit informants from China, calling it a sign of desperation amidst budget cuts in the U.S.
- The CIA's campaign was described by China's Ministry of State Security as an 'amateurish gambit.'
- The Ministry stated it will 'resolutely protect the nation's strategic interests and core secrets' against such recruitment attempts.
- China asserted that any efforts to incite betrayal among its citizens are 'doomed to fail.
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MSS calls CIA's public recruitment of ‘Chinese spies’ another farcical performance
Recently, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) posted recruitment videos in Chinese on social media, brazenly recruiting Chinese nationals to engage in espionage activities. These painstakingly crafted "job ads" lay bare the absurd logic and paranoid delusions of American intelligence agencies, the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) said in a bilingual post on Wednesday.
China slams CIA for 'violating most basic tenets of spycraft'
Chinese Ministry of State Security accuses US Central Intelligence Agency of attempting to contain China by repeatedly engaging in intelligence theft, infiltration, sabotage against Beijing - Anadolu Ajansı
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China calls CIA videos 'absurd' attempt to recruit spies
Beijing accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday (Jun 25) of making an "absurd" attempt to recruit Chinese citizens via videos posted to social media.
Beijing accused the CIA of "absurdly" seeking to recruit Chinese nationals through social media videos.
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