Pyongyang, December 14 (KCNA) -- Lebanese Shiite armed group Hezbollah has revealed over the weekend that the United States' Central Intelligence Agency has used the U.S. Embassy compound in Awkar, north of Beirut, as a venue to recruit Lebanese informants to spy on it.

According to the report aired on the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV station, the CIA had tasked a team of 10 officers, registered as diplomats at the U.S. Embassy, of recruiting Lebanese spies to gather information on Hezbollah's officials and fighters along with the addresses of the party's arms depots.

Speaking during a rally in Beirut on Saturday evening, Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheikh Naeem Qassem said that the information revealed by Al-Manar, should be considered as "only a small fraction" of data owned by Hezbollah on the activities of the CIA in Lebanon.