Exclusive: US authorities warn of the recruitment of dissatisfied employees by Russia and China

Exclusive: US authorities warn of the recruitment of dissatisfied employees by Russia and China

Foreign opponents, including Russia and China, have recently instructed their secret services, the recruitment of

The motivations of the foreign secret services

The secret services seem to be ready to use the measures of the Trump administration, provide for mass excretions in the public service-a plan that by the personnel authority at the beginning of this week. Russia and China focus on recently dismissed employees with security releases and on employees during the trial period who are threatened to be released. These people could have valuable information about the critical infrastructure and the important bureaucracy of the US government, report two of the sources.

increased recruitment potential

The opponents believe that these employees are "the most vulnerable now," said another source of supply. "Unemployed, bitter about the discharge, etc." A third insider who is informed about the latest US assessments told CNN: "It doesn't take much imagination to recognize that these retired federal workers with a rich treasure of institutional knowledge are a surprisingly attractive goal for the secret services of our competitors and opponents."

reactions from the US authorities

CNN has turned to the office of the director of the national secret services and the messages of China and Russia in Washington to receive statements. The secret service information seems to confirm a previously hypothetical fear in current and former US officials: that the mass settings could offer a wide range of recruitment for foreign secret services that try to exploit financially vulnerable or subsequent former employees.

The Ministry of Justice has charged several former military and intelligence officers in recent years because they have passed on US secret service information to China. In the past few weeks, career employees of the CIA have secretly discussed and discussed this risk how to reduce it, as current and earlier intelligence officers previously announced CNN.

an internal dilemma

The director of the national secret services, Tulsi Gabbard, indicated this week that these discussions represent an "threat" by illoyal government agency - instead of a clinical warning signal for the potential risks that are associated with the aggressive cost reduction strategy of President Donald Trump - and that the participants should be punished.

"I am curious how you believe that this is a good tactic to keep your job," said Gabard on Tuesday in a broadcast by Fox News. "They basically expose themselves to the danger by expressing this indirect threat of their propaganda arm CNN, which they use again and again to reveal their cards: their loyalty does not apply to America, not the American people and not the constitution."

sensitive information in risk

Several current civil servants from the national security authorities, who spoke anonymously with CNN, expressed frustration about the government's reaction to what they see as very real warnings - and not as a party policy attack. "Employees who feel treated unfairly by an employer historically have a much higher risk of disclosing sensitive information," said Holden Triplett, who worked on the first Trump administration as a director of counterpion on the National Security Council and was formerly FBI-attaché in the US messages in Moscow and Beijing. "We may create the perfect recruitment environment, if unintentionally,"

consequences for national security

"This is not reality TV," said another former secret service employee. "There are consequences." The CIA and the Ministry of Defense are considering considerable personnel cuts. The Pentagon announced in a message last week that over 5,000 trial workers who have been on duty in most cases for less than a year could be released in the near future. And the CIA has already released more than 20 employees due to its work on diversity issues, many of which are now in court against their discharge.

It could have already happened that the CIA involuntarily put some American secrets into the hands of foreign spies and hackers. In order to comply with the executive order to reduce federal personnel, the CIA sent an extremely unusual email to the White House at the beginning of this month, in which all new employees who are less than two years at the authority-have a list that comprises the CIA employees that are prepared to work-and this via an unclassified e-mail server.

Some of these employees who had access to confidential information about the operations and techniques of the authority could now be released as part of the layoffs.