Revealed, British Military Intelligence Is Actively Recruiting New Spies To Deploy To Asia

Illustration of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with military officials. (Wikimedia Commons/UK Prime Minister)

JAKARTA - The British military is actively recruiting new spy agents to deploy to Asia, according to the UK's Chief of Defense Intelligence Lt. Gen. Jim Hockenhull.

General Hockenhull said the British military was actively recruiting new spies to deploy quickly to the Asian region as Washington, London and Canberra escalated tensions with China.

This refers to the announcement of a joint security pact the United States, Britain and Australia announced last Wednesday, including an agreement to provide the Kangaroo State with nuclear submarines that many say is anticipating China's influence in the Indo-Pacific.

"We are deploying defense intelligence personnel and we have started to various locations across Europe. And now we are recruiting those who will go further east", Hockenhull said, as quoted by Sputnik News from the Daily Mail 17 September.

Hockenhull also revealed that his party is currently in the process of recruiting military members who are fluent in Japanese, so that they can later be turned into intelligence officers.

"We try to be imaginative in the way we do this and I hope, the individual will be available for placement if not later this year then definitely next", Hockenhull continued.

The so-called 'imaginative' approach was launched just days after the announcement of a defense pact between Britain, the US and Australia, which will provide the last eight nuclear-powered submarines.

Although AUKUS members assured the deal was not about "hosting anyone", including Beijing, China voiced concern about the defense pact, suggesting it would undermine regional security and undermine the non-proliferation treaty, calling on the West to move away from the 'Cold War mentality'.