The US Central Intelligence Agency, which is trying to recruit more Russians to become spies, has released a video targeting officials in Moscow, urging them to tell the truth about a system full of lying sycophants, Reuters reported, citing News.ro.

In July, CIA Director William Burns said that the disillusionment of some Russians with the war in Ukraine was creating a rare opportunity to recruit spies that the CIA was not passing up.

The agency published a Russian-language video on social media titled “Why I turned to the CIA — for myself,” which shows an alleged Russian official walking to work in the snow in what appears to be a Russian city.

“I insisted to everyone that distorting the truth in reports is dishonest, but that’s exactly what those who rose to power did,” says a Russian voiceover.

“I used to think the truth had some value,” the actor, who plays a Russian official, says in the video as he walks into a Russian government building and shows his ID, passing a table with the logo of an eagle on both ends of Russia.

“People around may not want to hear the truth. But we want to,” the video says before detailing how to contact the CIA, which is based in Langley, Va. “Honesty is rewarded,” the CIA said.

After the serious failures of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the US war in Iraq, the US and British intelligence services declared victory over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, giving early warning of the Kremlin’s plans.

It is so difficult for Western spies to penetrate Moscow that in Soviet times they compiled a manual called “Moscow Rules”.

They were updated for modern Russia. Putin, a former KGB spy who served in the former East Germany, has regained some of the influence of the once-powerful Soviet intelligence services, although the CIA says the Kremlin leader was poorly informed about the real situation in Ukraine before making the decision. invade Ukraine. (News.ro)