Posted on 04/10/2022 10:25:53 AM PDT by libh8er
A top FSB intelligence official has been moved to a high security jail in Moscow as Vladimir Putin purges his secret services over the botched Ukraine invasion, say reports.
Col-General Sergei Beseda, 68, head of the 5th Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB), was previously under house arrest.
He has now been placed in pre-trial detention in notorious Lefortovo Prison, suggesting he will face major charges for intelligence failings, it is claimed.
The move will be seen as a warning to other senior Putin aides who are expected to take the blame for the huge Russian death toll in Ukraine.
Beseda’s case is being investigated by the Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee, said Russian intelligence expert Andrei Soldatov, who revealed the Lefortovo move.
Beseda, in charge of FSB intelligence and political subversion in the ex-USSR, had been on a trip to Ukraine shortly before he was detained.
Putin is said to fear that moles leaked invasion plans to the West, and Beseda was detained along with his deputy Anatoly Bolyukh, but had been held under house arrest until now. The current status of Bolyukh is unclear.
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It’s like Soviet Homecoming!
What is old is new again!
In the US they would get promoted and celebrated for spreading false information.
Pentagon Believes...
DoD says...
Report says...
A person with inside knowledge...
An advisor who knows how xxxx thinks...
Some in the inner circle...
You mean like Dubya was told that Iraqis would welcome the U.S.?
The Putin fluffers on FR insist the Russians have already won the war.
The only thing left is mop up operations.
We are being lied to by “corporate media.”
LOL.
Thanks..how did I miss that ? Oh yes.. because I didn’t search !
Like Stalin’s NKVD conducting the Great Terror only to find themselves tried for treason in the Great Purge.
Robert Conquest “The Great Terror”
Sucks to be a mafia soldier who angers the don.
“as Putin steps up purge of spies who ‘told him Ukrainians would welcome invasion”
If true, it’s a B.S. excuse on Putin’s part because such generals were just agreeing with Putin, nodding yes to what Putin himself believed, and has beleived for a long time.
Bush was told that if he let the Baathist leadership below Saddam's inner circle remain in control of the government and military, they would surrender. Instead, he doubled down and insisted on "De-Ba'athification". Generals who face imprisonment or execution tend to keep fighting. Putin has copied that aspect of Bush's plan down to the deck of "most wanted" playing cards.
As someone said, “History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”.
There’s a fine line when working for a dictator.
The line between buttering the dictator up with lies they’ll love - and/or telling the hard truth and losing all power.
Smart officials under dictators don’t stick their necks out - or they’ll get them cut off. Seems Col-General Sergei Beseda didn’t get history’s memo.
We have the freedom of speech advantage.
Americans have already put out songs trashing Generals Milley and Austin... a warning that ‘the people’ are NOT impressed with their ‘wokeness’...
Truth is a strategic advantage - just ask Col-General Sergei Beseda - a man who didn’t have that advantage.
We’ve been telling the Russian military brass to get Putin before he gets them, but they are not listening.
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