Over the years, the CIA has done too much to confuse.
| Author: Ershui Ah Ye
| Editor: Ah Ye
| Editor: Lauringer Susu
"Do you know the Chinese dialect?" Can you understand several Chinese dialects? We just need you! ”
Don't doubt it, this is a job advertisement published by americans, and it is the CIA (hereinafter referred to as the "CIA").
Recently, after months of deliberation, CIA Director William Burns announced the adjustment of the department's future work, the core of which is the formation of a high-level working group on China, the "China Mission Center". To this end, they openly recruited agents who knew the Chinese dialect.
This wave of operations directly made Chinese netizens laugh and said: "This is also too small to look at the Chinese dialect!" Some netizens couldn't help but ridicule: "The opportunity for infernal affairs has come!" ”
This isn't the first time the CIA has been ridiculed for its outrageous operations. Perhaps in the eyes of many Americans, the CIA is an unfathomable intelligence agency, but in fact, its "face-punching" past can be described as a basket.
CIA "social recruitment" agents
After the reorganization, it blatantly recruited agents, and this is not the first time the CIA has done such a thing.
After 9/11, Then-C.I.A. Tenet ordered the largest reorganization of the C.I.A., increasing the number of spies by 70 percent and opening the first "spy training class."
Under his publicity and encouragement, the number of people applying to join the CIA increased dramatically. At the time, some people said that Tenet directly "turned espionage into a popular industry in the United States", making the CIA pervasive.
Tenet, former director of the CIA.
Can we do a good job in intelligence work by relying on more people alone? The US media does not think so.
In early October, a TOP-secret cable was quoted by the US media as saying that over-the-years, problems such as over-trust in sources, underestimation of foreign intelligence agencies, hasty recruitment of informants, and poor "craftsmanship" have plagued the CIA. Previously, the US media has disclosed the unreliability of the CIA more than once, saying that some intelligence officers search for information only rely on Google.
Nowadays, the CIA, which has thousands of people, cannot find a few people who really understand Chinese, so it has to make this decision and engage in "social recruitment".
In a recruitment message posted on its official website, the CIA said it hoped agents would master Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan, Hakka, Mongolian, Guangxi Zhuang, Tibetan and Uyghur.
Chinese netizens quickly paid attention to this job advertisement and opened the spit mode: "This is also too despised by China's five-thousand-year culture." "Shanghainese don't speak Shanghainese, and Americans are worried!" "First of all, we must clarify a problem, the dialects of the village head and the end of the village may be different..."
Comments from Chinese netizens. Image source: Xinhua News Agency client.
Obviously, the CIA does not yet have enough knowledge of the breadth and depth of Chinese culture and the variety of dialects.
China has five major language families and more than 30 languages. According to the "Overview of chinese and Chinese Characters in 2021" released by the Ministry of Education of China in August this year, there are ten major types of Chinese dialects alone: Guan dialect, Jin dialect, Wu dialect, Min dialect, Hakka dialect, Cantonese dialect, Xiang dialect, Gan dialect, Hui dialect, and Ping dialect, and there are several dialects and many kinds of "tu languages" in various dialect areas.
To give you a more specific example, please read the following two paragraphs aloud ↓↓
"Do one line at a time, line by line. If it doesn't work, it can't work one line, one line doesn't work, it doesn't work, it doesn't work, it can't do anything. ”
"What do you mean?" What does that mean? What do you mean, ask? Not interesting. What doesn't that mean? That's what it means. ”
It is very difficult for foreigners to understand these two paragraphs.
But as CIA director, Burns didn't seem to think about it that much. In order to get people involved in the job as soon as possible, he even developed the "Technical Researcher Program", which is simply the "fast track to entry", in an attempt to help Chinese-proficient professionals avoid the previous complex political censorship and background checks.
Confusing operation of a basket
Counting the CIA's past, it is not difficult to find that this US intelligence department has had many "punched in the face" moments.
In 2002, Maorvi, an Afghan farmer, "complained" to international reporters that since the United States wanted Omar, the then supreme leader of the Taliban, his photograph had been mistaken for Omar's portrait and was on the CIA's wanted list. However, there was a clear difference between the two, although both had thick beards, But Maulvi's eyes were healthy, while one of Omar's eyes was already blind.
Of course, the CIA not only couldn't figure out whether Omar's eyes were blind or not, they themselves often opened their eyes and talked nonsense. In 2003, then-C.I.A. Tenet reported that "Saddam's regime possesses weapons of mass destruction," and that "intelligence" certainly satisfied the George W. Bush administration's desire to attack Iraq. The United States then went to war with Iraq. However, the United States has not since found such a weapon in Iraq. In July of the same year, Tenet publicly admitted that it was a "misinformation" due to the CIA's improper review of intelligence. Whether this statement is true or not is now unclear.
In this way, the CIA often made itself clever.
In 2006, James Ritten, a reporter for the New York Times, revealed in his new book "State of War" that the CIA had "set up a set" for Iran 6 years ago, arranging for someone to secretly hand over the "wrong nuclear weapons design map" to Iran, in order to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, but in the end it stole chickens and did not corrode the rice.
Some former CIA officials said the "Trojan Horse Scheme", which handed over the wrong weapon designs to U.S. enemies, had been implemented many times before, but only involved conventional weapons. Such high-stakes operations involving nuclear weapons design drawings, if not handled properly, are likely to lift a stone and drop it on their own feet, helping opponents speed up weapons development.
CIA logo.
In the matter of recruiting agents, the CIA did not make jokes.
Former CIA beauty agent Lindesi Moran revealed in her book "Exposing Myself: My CIA Spy Career" that she almost fainted while taking the CIA's entrance exam. A male examiner kept asking her sexual questions: "What sexual experience have you had?" Moran had a hard time talking about the problem without changing his face, and the other party said: "In terms of sex, you obviously have some abnormalities." ”
In May 2013, Russia captured Fogel, a staff member of the U.S. Embassy in Russia. It turned out that Fogel was a CIA agent who had tried to plot an anti-Russian secret service staff member with an annual salary of one million dollars. In this regard, Ushakov, who was then an assistant to the Russian president, said bluntly: Russia was surprised by the "stupid and clumsy" practice of us CIA personnel recruiting Russian special service personnel.
Screenshot from the World Wide Web report.
In recent years, the CIA has become increasingly concerned about China.
In March this year, Burns took office as director of the CIA and immediately set up the "China Mission Center" as the focus of his work, and constantly brewed organizational restructuring.
Previously, the CIA operated more than a dozen mission centers, such as the Counter-Terrorism Mission Center, the South Asia Mission Center, and the Middle East Mission Center, and now has a separate mission center for China, which is the first time in the CIA's history.
Burns believes that a separate "China mission center" would make it easier to secure personnel, funding, and attention from the top levels of the U.S. government for China-related activities.
CIA Director Burns.
This is also in the hands of both parties in the US Congress. According to the New York Times, both Republicans and Democrats believe that U.S. intelligence agencies need to invest more resources in China.
But several people associated with the CIA questioned that Burns' move to form the "China Mission Center" did not do much to strengthen intelligence capabilities, but only to cater to the political demands of certain forces in the United States, especially "hawks".
A former CIA agent complained to the media, and he was skeptical of the CIA's establishment of a mission center dedicated to confronting China, "They will summarize 'China's multifaceted threats', just as if there really were."
After Burns officially announced that he would set up a "China Mission Center", he also said that he would follow the mechanism of the "Counter-Terrorism Mission Center" and hold weekly meetings with Chinese experts at the competent level to report to the top level of the US government after forming a complete strategy.
In this regard, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that this is a typical expression of the Cold War mentality. The relevant departments of the US side should view China's development and Sino-US relations objectively and rationally, and stop doing things that harm the mutual trust and cooperation between China and the United States and the interests of China's sovereignty, security, and development.
A mischievous U.S. intelligence service
Because the United States regards China as a "strategic competitor", various departments and agencies in the United States have also shifted their work focus to China and fancy the formation of various small teams against China.
In May, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy formed the "China Task Force"; in July of the same year, wolff, then acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, led the formation of the "China Working Group"; and in February, US President Biden personally announced at the Pentagon that the Department of Defense had established a new "China Working Group", composed of 15 civilian and military experts from various departments of the Department of Defense, headed by ratner, the current senior assistant for China affairs of the current Secretary of Defense, who had served as Biden's aide for a long time.
On April 14, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee held its annual hearing on "global threats," whose vice chairman was Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a notorious "vanguard of anti-China."
On the same day, the heads of the five major U.S. intelligence agencies — the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of Intelligence — were all present at the hearing.
On weekdays, these five major departments look at each other unfavorably, each for their own sake, and the United States even introduced relevant intelligence laws to divide the interests of various departments. Ben didn't speculate for more than half a sentence, but they sat together to fight Against China.
According to a number of US media reports, the responsible persons of the five major intelligence departments opened fire at the meeting, "unanimously" aimed their guns at China, and spared no effort to smear China on economic, military, network security, and other issues. Some analysts believe that these intelligence services are so targeted at China only to cater to the political demands of certain forces in the United States.
The United States has strictly prevented and controlled exchanges with China, and is very worried about the infiltration of the American people by Chinese culture. At present, the "China Pass" has become a fragrant feast, and various us government departments have even begun to "rob people."
However, as Qin Gang, China's ambassador to the United States, said in response to the CIA's establishment of the "China Mission Center", Cold War scripts like "007" are still left for Hollywood to make blockbusters and make money at the box office. Don't immerse yourself in self-directing, fake drama really do, always say that you are James Bond, caught in such an inner volume can not extricate yourself, tired or not?