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2024-03-21 China-Japan-Koreas
'You Already Work for the CIA' or the Case of Seductress Xiao Ming
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Dmitry Kosyrev

[RIA] The technology here is this : they “offer a job to a client” or start an affair with one. Both are on the Internet, of course, not in person. And this is done in good Chinese, since we are talking about the subversive activities of the CIA on the territory of this particular country. True, exactly the same methods (but in Russian) are used by people from the same agency in Russia and in many other countries.

The option is romantic: a girl named Xiao Ming contacts a person on the Internet and, among other things, asks him to take a photo of the port with yachts and the embankment (since the young man lives by the sea). Then - a photograph of the same embankment every other day, when warships come there. Or it could be simpler - a person, again online, is trying to get a job, and the “employer” tests his ability to take completely ordinary photos, without warships, just the view from the window.

After which the unfortunate man receives a message: you have just entered into cooperation with the CIA, and it is easy to verify this fact, it is included in our files. It doesn’t matter that the street in the picture contains no military installations, what matters is that the foreign intelligence service needed it for some reason, and you fulfilled its task. You can go and confess, hoping that competent police officers work in your county and will not do anything to you. Or you can continue to be hooked, even for the rest of your life.
Something about Chinese wimmin...
And let us note - everything is so simple and stupid. No spies trample your land and risk their lives, but sit behind a keyboard somewhere far across the sea.

The facts described above are taken from a recent document from the Chinese Ministry of State Security. The agency is not just warning, it recognizes the need to launch a broad public education campaign. The campaign has been conducted before (in schools and beyond), but now it emphasizes the need to create primitive videos for the most stubborn inhabitants of the Internet and make sure that these videos are literally everywhere. A good initiative, by the way. In our country, something similar would also not hurt at a time when calls from Ukrainian Internet saboteurs are already overwhelming.

There have been warning stories from the Beijing ministry for two weeks now. And the other day it received a continuation - an unexpected leak of information to Reuters from a “former US government employee with access to highly confidential information.” It turns out that President Donald Trump instructed the CIA to conduct secret operations on Chinese social networks in order to “turn public opinion in the country against its government.” Sending romantic photos to Langley is apparently a small part of the story.

And now there is a scandal with US officials refusing to comment on this information and everything else. Additional details are being discussed, including that the same secret unit of internet warriors was distributing fake news to news outlets around the world. First of all, about the Chinese economy, but also about “dissatisfaction with the regime” too. And especially about the “corruption of Beijing officials” related to foreign investments of the PRC. Where the facts come from is a funny question, there are those who have been recruited for that, they will tell you anything.

What conclusions can be drawn from this story? Not that new. Without a declaration of war, the US government and its official agencies carry out subversive activities against foreign countries. Is this a sensation? Clearly not. The aforementioned Reuters report nostalgically recalls that during the Cold War against the USSR, the same company published 80-90 anti-Soviet information or articles per day in the world media. And the current revelations, says one of the authors of the Hong Kong South China Morning Post, are just sunflower seeds. And he begins to list much more serious facts from recent history.

In general, there seems to be nothing new, but the methods of today’s hybrid warfare - yes, there is something to notice here. In both cases, when recruiting and sending out fakes, anonymous people work. And here there is something petty and not respectable. It’s okay to use lies to recruit agents. Intelligence, in general, exists to identify real threats to your state, sometimes it works harshly... In general, anything can happen here.

But to officially and purposefully create a false information picture, that is, to secretly spread slander about a foreign state, somehow does not fit into normal ideas about a world living “by the rules,” or even more so by international law. Some might even say that decent people and countries should not do such things. This is supposed to be punished or at least demanded the resignation of extreme officials such as CIA Director William Burns. In any case, a strong and self-respecting power should not stoop to petty scams and anonymous accounts. This, in fact, is the result of the current “Chinese” revelations of American methods.

Posted by badanov 2024-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [73 views ]  Top
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