Air Force warns airmen, veterans of foreign intelligence recruitment ploy

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations warned airmen and former servicemembers of a “recruitment scheme” that could trick them into working for “foreign intelligence entities.”

“These aren’t just job offers, they’re intelligence operations in disguise,” Special Agent Lee Russ, executive director of AFOSI Office of Special Projects, said in a report from the office today. “Our adversaries are targeting the very people who’ve kept this nation secure.”

An unnamed counterintelligence analyst added, “These aren’t random messages. They’re calculated attempts to exploit trust.”

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