CIA videos viewed by tens of millions in China

The CIA recently launched a program to recruit agents inside the near-totalitarian Chinese Communist system through a series of online videos in Mandarin.

The videos seek to prompt defections to the agency’s ranks of informants and double agents from key officials in the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.

Since the videos were first posted 10 months ago, the total hits on YouTube have exceeded 100 million views, according to tallies on the channel reported on X by online CCP critic Bin Xie.

Two new videos put out by the CIA in the past 30 days alone received 82 million views.

It is not known if the videos have resulted in the recruitment of CCP or PLA members.

The most recent video published Feb. 13 targeted Chinese soldiers in an apparent bid to recruit troops who may be disaffected by recent high-level political purges of senior PLA leaders.

The video shows a fictional Chinese military officer contacting the CIA after growing disillusioned with senior military leaders.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said the CCP poses the most formidable adversary challenge to the U.S.

“It is intent on dominating the world economically, militarily, and technologically,” Mr. Ratcliffe said in a statement. “Our agency must continue responding to this threat with urgency, creativity, and grit, and these videos are just one of the ways we are doing this.”