FBI utilizing social media to recruit Russians for data

The FBI is utilizing social media to try to recruit Russians and different data as the US continues to help Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.

The recruitment video, which was posted to Fb and Twitter, shows scenes from Washington, D.C., and the Russian Embassy whereas a narrator talking Russian tells viewers the FBI is in search of spies, expats, and anybody with details about Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response to Fox News.

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"Do you wish to change your future?" mentioned Assistant Director Alan Kohler of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division. "The FBI values you. The FBI can assist you, however solely you may have the facility to take step one."

The launch of this new social media marketing campaign appeared to have begun in February, the identical month the conflict in Ukraine honored its first anniversary.

Former CIA Moscow Station Chief Dan Hoffman was supportive of the marketing campaign, telling the outlet that the message on social media was "sharp" and "good." Nonetheless, former Protection Intelligence Company intelligence officer and native Russian speaker Rebekah Koffler have been much less enthusiastic concerning the marketing campaign, telling Fox News Digital the FBI's video was flawed and that the narrator’s commentary didn't all the time make sense, which "undermines the FBI’s credibility."

Whereas the FBI's newest marketing campaign is trying to succeed in a wider viewers for potential recruitment, as youthful persons are "always on social media," Koffler argued that the federal government successfully utilizing their marketing campaign is unlikely.

"I want them luck, however my confidence stage on this program being profitable is nearly zero," Koffler mentioned.

The Division of Protection is trying into how top-secret paperwork with particulars concerning the conflict in Ukraine have been printed on social media, with the paperwork consisting of maps of Ukraine and charts of the place troops are concentrated and what weapons can be found to them, which was reported by the New York Occasions. The images posted on each Twitter and Telegram have been photos taken of the creased maps.

“We're conscious of the stories of social media posts, and the division is reviewing the matter,” mentioned Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon's deputy press secretary.