The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which is trying to recruit more Russians as spies, has released a video targeting Moscow officials, calling for them to tell the truth about a system it says is full of liars.
CIA Director William Burns said in July that discontent among some Russians over the war in Ukraine was creating a rare opportunity to recruit spies and that the CIA should take advantage of it.
The agency released a Russian-language video titled "Why I Contacted the CIA - For Myself" on social media, showing what appears to be a Russian official walking through the snow in what appears to be a Russian city.
"I insisted to everyone that it is unscrupulous to distort the truth in reports, but those who did it prospered," says the narration in Russian over the video.
"Before I believed the truth had any value," the video shows the actor playing a Russian official entering a Russian government building and displaying his pass above the double-headed eagle of Russia.
"Those around you may not want to hear the truth. But we do," the video says before detailing how to contact the CIA, which is based in Langley, Virginia. "Integrity is rewarded".
After major failures in connection with the 11/XNUMX terrorist attacks and the US war in Iraq, US and British spy agencies claim that they were successful when it came to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, because they gave advance warning of the Kremlin's plans.
Moscow is so difficult for Western spies to work with that they developed the "Moscow Rules" in Soviet times. It was changed for modern Russia.
Russian officials accuse Britain and the United States of supporting Ukraine in an attempt to carve up Russia and take its natural resources - claims Washington and London deny.
Putin, a former KGB spy who served in the former East Germany, has regained some of the influence of the once-powerful Soviet intelligence agencies, although the CIA says the Kremlin chief was poorly informed about the real situation in Ukraine before his decision to invade.
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