CIA videos viewed by tens of millions in China
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Thursday, March 12, 2026
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.
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