Posted on 03/19/2022 3:01:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Last week, Andrey Soldatov, a respected author on the Russian secret services, said sources inside the FSB told him that Sergey Beseda, 68, head of the agency's foreign service, had been placed under arrest on Putin's orders.
Also arrested was Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president.
Putin is said to blame the agency for intelligence which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid of their leaders.
Among the reasons for the repressions are the embezzlement of funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine, as well as deliberately false information about the political situation in Ukraine.
The FSB security service allegedly handed him intelligence suggesting that Ukraine was weak, riddled with neo-Nazi groups, and would give up easily if attacked.
In fact, the Russian armed forces have faced fierce resistance from Ukrainian soldiers that has battled them to a standstill, inflicted heavy losses, and forced Putin's commanders to resort to brutal siege warfare that has so far yielded few results.
Soldatov previously told The Times that most FSB agents are brought into the service as legacy hires based on their parents or grandparents being agents and are removed from mainstream schools to be educated in-house.
This is unlike western security services, which tend to recruit from elite universities or colleges to ensure they get 'the cream of the crop'.
Alternatively, he said, the organisation did gather good intelligence - but was simply too afraid to tell Putin the truth, instead doctoring their reports to appease him.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Opposition writer makes a claim, US Intel agrees, story pushes everywhere into the press. Not a word of the story is verified. Shades of Christopher Steele...
Daily Mail makes other tabloids look respectable.
So who would verify the story? Putin’s 800 info line? The FSB press and media officer?
Most all countries have an “entrenched” bureaucracy, that all leaders must deal with. Looks like the Russian one screwed Putin like ours did to Bush II. I wonder what the Chinese one will do to Xi?
[Opposition writer makes a claim, US Intel agrees, story pushes everywhere into the press. Not a word of the story is verified. Shades of Christopher Steele...]
https://sports.yahoo.com/trump-claims-once-warned-friend-023203603.html
Progressives and Putin had a common enemy in Trump, so colluded to depict him as a Russian agent. Whereas the overflowing morgues in Belarus, the geo-located wrecks of Russian vehicles and the deaths of 5 Russian generals are fairly well-documented.
“…which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid...“
This is un fathomable to me. My impression regarding the Ukes was that they were FIERCELY independence minded. When Putin went into Ukraine I thought he was in for some real trouble. Don’t really know anything about Ukraine but that was my impression.
For entertainment purposes only.
Then, if later it turns out true, you can say “you knew that”.
Same for if false.
[Most all countries have an “entrenched” bureaucracy, that all leaders must deal with. Looks like the Russian one screwed Putin like ours did to Bush II. I wonder what the Chinese one will do to Xi?]
https://nypost.com/2015/02/16/investor-putin-could-be-worlds-richest-man-with-stolen-200b-fortune/
His aides have wives. Keeping up with the Joneses is a thing. Why do you drive a clapped-out Lada while your lower-ranking colleague drives a Bentley? Why is our son living in the dorm at Volgograd State University when that other colleague’s daughter drives to Boston College in Cambridge, MA, from the palatial mansion he owns, free and clear, in a Ferrari? Why do we vacation in some primitive dacha with an outhouse in the middle of nowhere when that colleague cruises along the French Riviera in his custom-built mega-yacht?
[“…which assured him ahead of the invasion that Russian forces would face only token resistance from the Ukrainian army and that Ukrainians themselves were eager to be rid...“
This is un fathomable to me. My impression regarding the Ukes was that they were FIERCELY independence minded. When Putin went into Ukraine I thought he was in for some real trouble. Don’t really know anything about Ukraine but that was my impression.]
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDuran/videos
Yesterday's drop [3:22:20]:
Russia-Ukraine SITREP. 21 days [and 8 years] of fighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE8UfZZ-n_A
I watched the first hour and got a lot out of it, as far as the situation on the ground. Gonzalo Lira is hanging about in Kharkiv.
The three guys who do this are Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris and Gonzalo Lira.
“ This is unlike western security services, which tend to recruit from elite universities or colleges to ensure they get ‘the cream of the crop’.
Still laughing...
A Rose by any other name. Prob a pseudonym for Steele. Or Saint Steele as he is now known as courtesy of CIA stooges on FR
“Soldatov previously told The Times that most FSB agents are brought into the service as legacy hires based on their parents or grandparents being agents and are removed from mainstream schools to be educated in-house.“
As opposed to here where we don’t have intel legacies, right Bush I? Right Bill Barr? Right etc etc...
[As opposed to here where we don’t have intel legacies, right Bush I? Right Bill Barr? Right etc etc...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush#World_War_II
I think he’s a squish, but Bush was a Yale grad, a bona fide war hero, a somewhat successful oil man, a several term Congressman and a political appointee to various State Department posts by the time he was appointed temporary CIA head. If that’s not a record of accomplishment, I don’t know what is.
[As opposed to here where we don’t have intel legacies, right Bush I? Right Bill Barr? Right etc etc...]
“He almost escaped being eaten by the Japanese...”
LOL! I don’t think it was “almost”, I’m pretty sure he did escape.
If it’s a military oprration, why would the FSB be the main source of intelligence? Is Putin afraid of the GRU?
[LOL! I don’t think it was “almost”, I’m pretty sure he did escape.]
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