Posted on 10/27/2016 11:57:43 AM PDT by gold submarine
Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.
A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.
Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin.
The Kremlin has not commented. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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"For 16 years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.
He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging,[3] and was reelected in 2004."
"On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin head of the FSB (one of the successor agencies to the KGB), the position Putin occupied until August 1999. He became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on 1 October 1998 and its Secretary on 29 March 1999."
When Putin launches his Satan missiles, I'm sure one will land right in your mom's basement while you are playing with your Nintendo. Boo!
Oh, and BTW... the Ukraine, and Western Europe would be better off with Putin in charge. You can bet he wouldn't put up with the Muslim rapist invasion like your open borders hero, Stasi agent Angela Merkel.
This is an opinion/editorial directly from me. I listed the WikiLeaks source, it is common knowledge on the web right now.
This was my opinion/editorial. I am the source. no one has to believe it. It is my own conclusions and conjecture. It is not set in stone or absolute.
As Americans we should be leery of any nation that may be a threat to world peace. But looking at the fruits of Russia since Putin has been in power we can see they are not aggressive and are not building an empire like the Soviet union was doing, or what the US was doing under the neo-cons. We have to give peace a chance - trust but verify.
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