Post AlelXCR4IuVGqOnm9Q by tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
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 (DIR) Post #AlelXBj6wLLEe4EfdQ by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
       2024-09-03T18:04:27.509884Z
       
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       #Ukraine incursion into #Kursk oblast’ had one interesting added benefit, which was obtaining access to secret FSB archives in Sudzha. FSB was evacuating in such haste that they did not manage to destroy their archives, which were acquired intact and now journalist Dmytro “Apostol” Karpenko is publishing some of them.As Estonian analyst Artur Rehi wrote on Twitter, the most interesting thing about the documents is the unbelievable amount of bullshit produced from the very bottom to the very top of FSB. The service whose main purpose is to collect accurate, actionable intelligence internally and abroad is mass scale producing fantasies, certifying them as “reliable intelligence” and inventing whole massive plots, on a scale that would probably beat Hollywood screenplay writers union.One of the cases is based on confidential reports from agent “Mizer” who, according to the FSB document is a 1973 born male, living in Mokrushino in Kursk oblast’ whose “operational value” is that he “can travel to subjects of Russian Federation, specifically Donetsk People’s Republic” due to the job he’s doing.Attached is his hand-written report where he describes a rather delusional story of “youth camps” where ominous “Azov” soldiers train them into becoming assassins, all supervised by “instructors from France, UK, Belarus and Latvia” etc etc. The report is described as “reliable information”, whereas any sane person would ask themselves how this knowledge could be acquired by a person that is only allowed to travel to DPR… which is certainly quite far and isolated from all the places where the “camps” are described to be happening. At the same time, the report very much looks like it’s just rambling compiled from random stories taken from Russian TV, which were likely based on other such reports etc etc.Plenty more documents are posted on “Apostle” Telegram  https://t.me/ApostleDmytro/62 and on his YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@dmytrokarpenko/videos
       
 (DIR) Post #AlelXCR4IuVGqOnm9Q by tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
       2024-09-04T09:38:44Z
       
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       @kravietz This predates Putin. In "Next Stop Execution", Oleg Gordievsky describes how Moscow was demanding details of the NATO plan for a first nuclear strike followed by invasion of Russia, which the Politburo knew had to exist because history and Marxist theory agreed that it must.Gordievsky and his colleagues would make up reports about this plan because it was the only way to survive. The KGB was Dilbert with the Death Penalty, and I doubt the FSB is different.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlelXDIb5tJzWPqWaO by divVerent@blob.cat
       2024-09-04T10:12:35.163573Z
       
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       @tokensane @kravietz Yes, this is essentially many Soviet aspects back under Putin. Nice to see even clearer proof of this.What I do NOT know is - did Putin bring back Soviet idiocy from his KGB times, or did Yeltsin never end it?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aleldk8fuP1p6vJoqe by fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de
       2024-09-04T08:46:13Z
       
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       @kravietz We don't know to what extent other countries' security services are doing this. We can't know, in fact; almost no-one is in a position to pick up on it if they are.Although I would guess that at the very least, they are constructing more credible lies…
       
 (DIR) Post #AleldkpZKvL7FxO4hs by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
       2024-09-04T09:00:13.402116Z
       
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       @fishidwardrobe Well, actually do know - Kremlin genuinely believed Ukraine will “welcome us with flowers” and  “we will be in Kiev in three days”. The only person who appeared to be genuinely concerned on 21 February 2022 was Naryshking, head of SVR (foreign intelligence) but he was sidelined and ridiculed by Putin himself.Russia’s problem is not in some kind of one-off fluctuation or mistake, but in a system that was entirely intentionally built by Putin over 20 years. This system is sometimes called “vertical of power” but in reality it’s 100% textbook implementation of authoritarianism, system literally built on authority of one person, along with all his cognitive biases. Putin himself kicked out many ministers and advisors who dared to disagree with him, thus leading to a process of negative selection where only people who remained were those who told him what he wanted to hear.This is how you ended with FSB (civilian intelligence) and GRU (military intelligence) feding Russia’s security council with utter bullshit, because this is how they earned medals and advanced in the corporate ladder.