Putin jails Russian spy chief over alleged leaks to U.S. regarding Ukraine war UkraineRussiaWar
A report Monday suggested that Col. Gen. Sergei Beseda, head of the FSB’s foreign intelligence unit, has been taken to Moscow’s high-security Lefortovo prison, typically used for those suspected of treason.
While the charges against Beseda are unknown, Soldatov quoted sources in Russian intelligence as saying that the case was initially handled by the internal security service before it was taken over by Russia’s military counter-intelligence. “The only thing they deal with is looking for spies,” Soldatov said yesterday.Article content
Unclassified U.S. intelligence reports last month suggested that Putin is increasingly frustrated with his intelligence chiefs and military leaders as the Russian army struggles to achieve its objectives. The Ukrainian-born intelligence chief flew to Kyiv in February 2014 for the final days of a violent showdown between Ukraine’s pro-Russian president and pro-Western protesters.
Several of his agents across former Soviet republics have been exposed in recent years. Christo Grozev of the forensic intelligence team Bellingcat last week quoted unnamed sources saying that some 150 FSB officers from Beseda’s department have been arrested or fired in the aftermath of their boss’s fall from grace.
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