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The FBI has been boosting its efforts to recruit Russians with access to classified information in recent weeks, The Daily Beast has learned.
In an attempt to gather more intelligence on Moscow and bring in more Russian assets, the agency has been running a social media operation since February targeting Russians who might be willing to spy for the Biden administration, The Daily Beast has learned.
The spy-hunting operation relies on a promotional video that depicts potential paths that an employee at the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C., might take through the city to reach the FBI at the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The video, roughly two minutes long, features music from Chopin’s haunting Nocturne No. 1, with various shots of buses and trains that can be taken to FBI headquarters, as well as footage of the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the streets of Georgetown.