To: ncalburt
Putin finally resigned from the active state security services with the rank of lieutenant colonel on 20 August 1991 (with some attempts to resign made earlier),[31] on the second day of the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.[32] Putin later explained his decision: "As soon as the coup began, I immediately decided which side I was on", though he also noted that the choice was hard because he had spent the best part of his life with "the organs".[33]
Putin was not ever head of the KGB.
25 posted on
03/02/2014 3:25:49 PM PST by
xzins
( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
To: xzins
Of course he wasn’t. George HW Bush was head of the CIA, however.
To: xzins
your quoting His official Wikipedia here.
why not just quote the Russian Today official bio !
33 posted on
03/02/2014 3:36:41 PM PST by
ncalburt
( Amnesty-media out in full force)
To: xzins
Sorry Putin just oversaw the lovely East German branch of the KGB in Dresden
You know the ones torturing defectors and shooting woman and children in the back ,
Really a great guy.
35 posted on
03/02/2014 3:39:58 PM PST by
ncalburt
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