A senior Russian security official who defected last year has revealed rare details of President Vladimir Putin’s security mission, which included secret trains, offices in different cities, strict personal quarantine and escalating security measures.
The Guardian reported that the 36-year-old Gleb Karakulov (Gleb Karakulov), who worked for the “Federal Security Service” (FSO), which is responsible for protecting Russia’s highest-ranking officials, said that the above measures were aimed at covering up Putin’s whereabouts. Ting is “morbidly afraid for his life”.
As a communications officer, Karakulov is responsible for “establishing a secure communication network” wherever the president and prime minister go, and encrypting the messages of senior Russian officials. Karakulov estimates that he has acted with senior officials for more than 180 days. On one occasion, he called Putin a “war criminal” in an interview and said “our president has lost touch with the world, and for the past few years he has been living in a residence called a bunker, where he has placed himself in insurmountable isolation. barriers and message vacuum”.
Karakulov also confirmed that Putin relied heavily on reports from his security services, saying that “Putin neither uses a mobile phone nor uses the Internet” and that after the emergence of the new crown virus, he will be in the same space as him for all work All personnel must be quarantined for a period of 2 weeks, and the number of people who come into contact with him is strictly limited. In addition, Putin, who is quite afraid of assassination, will use fake convoys and decoy planes to pretend to leave by himself.
As for Karakurov, when he visited Kazakhstan with the team last October, he chose to “flee” to Turkey with his wife and children, and is currently listed as a wanted criminal by Russia.
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