The United States has a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to recruit spies for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), thanks to the Russian upheaval, according to CIA director William Burns.
Burns – who continues to display strong ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a relationship which continued even after President Biden picked him to be America’s top spy – highlighted the recent Wagner revolt as a challenge to President Vladimir Putin and argued that it demonstrated the “corrosive effect” of the war on Russian society.
“Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership beneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced repression,” Burns explained at a lecture to the Ditchley Foundation, which focuses on Anglo-American relations, on Saturday. “That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at the CIA – at our core a human intelligence service. We’re not letting it go to waste,” he added.
The CIA published a video encouraging Russians to contact the agency through a secure internet channel in May this year. The CIA stated that it wanted to hear from military officers, intelligence specialists, diplomats, and scientists via Telegram on the Onion Router (TOR), which makes tracing online activity more difficult.
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