War (2024)

I received this book for Christmas from a “Secret Santa” (he knows who he is). I’ve just finished reading the first 24 chapters. It is the political background to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. (Has it been almost three years, already?)

What struck me was the reliance that U.S. Intelligence services had on ‘someone’ inside the Kremlin providing them with credible (yet incredible) information about Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine. Doesn’t that suggest a ‘mole’? Who could it be? Taking a page out of Kim Philby‘s story, I felt it must be someone high up in the Russian’s intelligence services. So, I Googled “Mole inside the Kremlin 2022”.

Sergey Beseda (May 17, 1954)

Sergey Orestovich Beseda (Russian: Сергей Орестович Беседа; born on 17 May 1954) is a Russian politician, Colonel General and government agent who headed the Fifth Service (Service of Operational Information and International Relations) of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) internal intelligence agency from 2009 to June 2024.

In March 2022, during the first month of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, international media reported that Beseda was being held under house arrest as a consequence of giving Russian President Vladimir Putin erroneous intelligence on unexpectedly strong Ukrainian resistance to the invasion. On 8 April, Beseda was reportedly transferred to Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison, but Russian authorities provided no official confirmation of any of these events and in August The Washington Post cast doubt on reports that Beseda had been removed from his leadership role at the FSB. He finally left office in the summer of 2024, when he became advisor to the Director of the FSB.

Wikipedia

Hmm. That sounds like disinformation to cover their tracks, doesn’t it? But, we only have his birth date, so everything that comes after this could be erroneous.

What I was hoping to see, and I wasn’t disappointed, was a Yod pointing to Mercury, this time formed from inconjuncts to Mars and Saturn. There are also two more inconjuncts: one linking the Sun and Neptune; and the other the Moon and Venus. So, we are not in exactly the same territory as Philby, but close enough to look at any similarities between them. (This time I’m using Philby’s birth chart to compare Beseda’s unsubstantiated one.)

Interesting, isn’t it? Beseda’s Sun is conjunct Philby’s Moon/Mars/Ascendant conjunction in Taurus. Philby’s Pluto is conjunct Beseda’s Jupiter in Gemini. And Beseda’s Mars is conjunct Philby’s Sun in Capricorn. What can it all mean?

On the Russian side of things, they may have suspected Beseda’s cooperation with U.S. intelligence services and decided to turn his information back on them, to help muddy the waters, as it were. It has not changed the outcome of the Ukraine War, though.

When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?