How is FSB covert surveillance conducted? A former employee explains!
Covert surveillance is a separate profession within the FSB, with its own training system and its own dedicated directorate. However, over the years of service, I personally went out on surveillance routes as a regular operational officer of my line — simply because there were not enough specialists.
I am a former officer of the Second Service of the FSB. In this video, I explain how surveillance is supposed to work according to official procedures, and what actually happens in practice when staffing levels are insufficient: why line operatives are pulled into surveillance work, why there is a parallel surveillance resource within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and how I personally ended up involved in such an operation in a specific case in Naberezhnye Chelny.
00:00 How I personally went out on surveillance
00:47 Who I am and why I’m speaking about this
01:47 Part I. Covert surveillance according to procedure — rotation, “carousel,” communications
04:40 Part II. What is not written in the procedure — regions and Ministry of Internal Affairs resources
08:05 Part III. Tauba Mosque — how it happened in practice
10:15 Part IV. Radicals vs. foreign intelligence — where resources are diverted
12:25 Part V. The system’s limit — main conclusion
The author’s identity has been confirmed by the independent international publication New Lines Magazine, as well as independent research centers. Links are provided in the channel description.
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