How the FSB recruits agents in the US and Canada
FSB has even recruited Canadian law enforcement. FSB has a world-class typographical factory in Moscow that allows them unlimited ability to create perfect forgeries of Western identity documents.
Highlights of Vladimir Osechkin’s interview with Pavel Belomestnykh, former FSB agent who fled to the United States.
A history of how a young man returned to Russia from Canada and the FSB decided to recruit him, which spectacularly backfired as that young man came to possess a mountain of compromising information on FSB’s internal criminal operations worldwide.
Pavel first contacted Osechkin when he fled Russia earlier this year and arrived in Vienna, Austria. He informed Osechkin that he has a lot of information from inside the FSB that he’d like to see published, to complement Gulagu.net’s ongoing investigations into criminal human rights abuses in Russian prisons sanctioned by the state, including from the video evidence collected by former inmate, Belarusian Sergei Savelyev, who managed to escape Russia with terabytes of surveillance footage of prison tortures and received political asylum in France.
Pavel intended to receive political asylum in Europe, however, the situation was clearly heating up at the time this summer, including many questionable personas arriving to Europe from Russia as well as attempts on Osechkin’s life ordered by the FSB. Therefore, he left Europe and ended up in the United States on September 24th. In Europe, he was in Vienna, Austria, Paris, France, and Spain. As he grew up in Canada, he is comfortable in the US without a need to adapt. So far, he has not been in contact with the American security services. He got a job as a driver in the US.
A story of how the FSB recruited Pavel: After growing up in Canada, finishing school and college there, he decided to move to Russia and start an automotive business using his savings. However, problems with the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeared almost immediately after opening the business. Through his acquaintances, he was introduced to the FSB, as he figured that would be a way to resolve his issues with the government. The FSB quickly made his problem go away, did not take any money, and then maintained casual contact with him. Conversations then moved on from the automotive industry to the subject of Canada. Then he received various insinuations and direct offers to collaborate with the FSB.