UK: MI6 Launches Dark Web Portal to Recruit Russian Spies

UK: MI6 Launches Dark Web Portal to Recruit Russian Spies
Above: MI6 headquarters in London, England in October 2022.  Image copyright: Jan Woitas/picture alliance/Getty Images

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Pro-establishment narrative

This dark web recruitment portal marks the essential modernization of intelligence gathering in an increasingly dangerous world. As traditional spy recruitment through face-to-face meetings becomes too risky, the Silent Courier platform provides a secure lifeline for brave individuals inside authoritarian regimes who want to help protect democratic values and global stability.

Pro-Russia narrative

This platform essentially creates a formal mechanism for recruiting traitors and undermining sovereign governments under the guise of national security. The timing coincides with escalating tensions and represents another provocative step in the ongoing intelligence war by the West upon nations deemed a threat to its illegitimate hegemony.

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