American employees in the crosshairs: Opponents USAincluding Russia and China, ordered their intelligence services attempts to recruit American federal employees from national security services – says CNN, citing four sources. The US hostile US uses, among others Popular internet platforms.
They can have valuable information: Russian and Chinese services are to focus on recently dismissed federal employees With security powers and employees at trial periods threatened with dismissal, who may have valuable information, including about the critical US infrastructure. “At least two countries have already created recruitment websites and began to aggressively urge federal employees on LinkedIn,” say CNN sources.
“Attractive goals”: CNN adds that agents of foreign interviews have been ordered to search for potential sources on platforms LinkedIn, Tiktok, Rednote and Reddit. Released employees can be an easy target for countries such as China or Russia. – They are now the most defenseless. Without work, they got bitter because of his dismissal, etc. – says one of the sources of the American station. – You don't need much imagination to notice that you Rejected federal officialshaving extensive institutional knowledge, constitute Extremely attractive goals for intelligence services our competitors and opponents – adds another interlocutor.
Perfect recruitment environment? – Employees who feel that they have been treated badly by the employer were historically significantly more likely to reveal confidential information. We can create, though unintentionally, an ideal recruitment environment – commented Holden Triplett, who was the director of counterintelligence at the National Security Council in the first Trump administration and is a former FBI attaché in embassies USA in Moscow and Beijing.
Mass exemptions in the USA: He is behind the massive dismissals of federal employees in the USA Doge, i.e. the Department for Government Efficiency, which is managed by the billionaire Elon Musk. The department was appointed to reduce expenses in government administration. His activities encounter the resistance of federal employees. They believe that unjustified and random savings will lead to the destabilization of the state. As part of the search for savings, Doge representatives have released, among others, a large number of air traffic controllers, national parks employees and the American Atomist Agency.
The services also slow down: TNot everything. CNN reports that The CIA and Department of Defense also consider significant employment reductions. “Pentagon informed in a note from last week that ?? than 5,000 employees on a trial period, who in most cases worked in their position a year or shorter, could be dismissed in a short period,” says the American station.
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Sources: CNNIAR