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 Central Intelligence Agency released two videos Thursday aimed at recruiting Chinese officials who might be disillusioned by their prospects in government in a bid to get them to share top secrets about China with the US.

The CIA has a message for Chinese government officials worried about their place in President Xi Jinping's government: Come work with us. America's premier spy agency released two Mandarin-language videos on social media Thursday inviting disgruntled officials to contact the CIA.