The CIA on Thursday rolled out two Chinese-language videos aimed at enticing officials in China to leak secrets to the U.S., the latest public effort by the intelligence agency to ramp up human intelligence gathering on Washington's strategic rival.

The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released new videos in Mandarin targeting Chinese officials. The videos are aimed at enticing Chinese officials to leak secrets to the United States.

The CIA has released two short videos that appear designed to tap into possible discontent in the Chinese government and encourage leaks of sensitive state secrets to the US.