China’s intelligence services will be trying to recruit US employees who have been fired by Donald Trump administration, including FBI agents and former military.
It is the US National Center for Unintelligence and Security (CNCIS), in conjunction with the FBI and the Pentagon Counter-thinning service, which makes the alert, highlighting that the Chinese secrets will be resorting to “Deceptive methods” to recruit former US government employees.
The warning was launched this week in a statement to which the newspaper (NYT) had access. CNCIS emphasizes that “foreign agencies are to go through consulting companiesreflection groups and other organizations to connect with former government officials. ”
Among the recruitment methods used will be offers of disproportionately high wages and from Flexible working conditions. E
Some of the offers may even seem like US companies.
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Even because the dismissed employees can be especially vulnerableeither because they need work, or because they are angry at how they lost their jobs.
Among the targets of the Chinese secret will be FBI agents and military officers who withdrew.
But the current federal officials also “should be careful with virtual approaches and understand the potential consequences” that may imply, also warns CNCIS.
The Center warns the former employees who had Special Security Authorizationsrecalling them that they have the “legal obligation to protect the classified information” to which they had access, even after they left duties.
Chinese secrets recruit on social networks
US authorities had already warned that the China uses social networks to recruit people, namely with publications to challenge dismissed researchers by US public institutes in health, to “continue to develop their career” in Shenzhen.
The new alert of the US counterpart center notes that Chinese secret services begin by offering “small amounts for Inquiry investigation work“.
But over time, they make requests that involve Most sensitive articles.
Last March, CNN had reported that China and Russia ordered their secret services to intensify the recruitment of US federal employees involved in areas of.
