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Was It Putin Spying on Ronald Reagan in '88 Moscow Photo?
Newsmax ^ | 06/16/2021 | Erik Mack

Posted on 06/17/2021 6:39:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A 1998 photo of former President Ronald Reagan's visit to Moscow appears to show a young Vladimir Putin posing as a tourist, leading the photographer to speculate the former KGB agent was spying on the U.S. president.

The photo has been discussed for a few years, but White House photographer Pete Souza resurfaced it this week as President Joe Biden takes his first meeting with the Russian president.

Souza, who was the White House photographer during the Reagan and Obama administrations, posted the photo on Instagram on Wednesday:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 1988; photo; putin; reagan; vlad
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These people need to proof read these articles. 1988 not 1998.
1 posted on 06/17/2021 6:39:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Editors? Who needs editors?


2 posted on 06/17/2021 6:45:25 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Collusion! IMPEACH 40!!


3 posted on 06/17/2021 6:47:29 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic: The Internet's 1st social media platform. Since 1996.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In pictures, the ones in the crowd who are laughing hysterically are the KGB (or whatever they’re called now) agents spying on Biden.


4 posted on 06/17/2021 6:48:43 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t see the point.

This isn’t new, as the article says, this has been floating around for years.
It’s not verified.

Is there no actual news to print?


5 posted on 06/17/2021 6:51:58 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
... White House photographer Pete Souza (and Democrat schill) resurfaced it this week as President Joe Biden takes (in the r... in) his first meeting with the Russian president.

LOL, Putin doing his job in 1988 is exposed to Ronald Reagan, and twelve years later Putin abandons Communism and points Russia directly toward Capitalism exactly as Reagan did at every meeting with Soviet officials and bureaucrats.

Who do you think influenced who?

6 posted on 06/17/2021 6:53:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Putin is nothing more that a Russian nationalist at his core and rules Russia in the mode of an autocrat. Autocratic rule has been the political reality in Russia throughout recorded history and includes the communist era. What is more, the majority of Russians are comfortable with Putin and support him. When the West realizes and understands this reality, it will be better able to deal with Russia and stop making monumental miscalculations.

Putin laments that during the break up of the USSR, lands that once were firmly alligned and controlled by the Czar were allowed to slip away from political union with Russia. Putin, as a russian nationalist, has done whatever he can to restablish Russia’s historical domain.

Eventually Russia will not be in confrontation with the West. Its main concern will be China. China covets Russia’s underpopulated, rich Asian Pacific territories and the Siberian treasure house.


7 posted on 06/17/2021 6:57:35 AM PDT by allendale
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To: allendale

Excellent comment


8 posted on 06/17/2021 7:00:37 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can prove that Reagan did not meet Putin in 1988.

Putin didn’t kill him.

Not to be glib but that’s what Putin was doing in 1988.


9 posted on 06/17/2021 7:03:25 AM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It doesn’t really look like Putin. It looks like Daniel Craig (James Bond). It all makes sense.


10 posted on 06/17/2021 7:09:00 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: dead
It doesn’t really look like Putin. It looks like Daniel Craig (James Bond). It all makes sense.

No, Bond would have the sense to wear a belt, although it was the 80's.

11 posted on 06/17/2021 7:10:34 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: allendale
When the West realizes and understands this reality, it will be better able to deal with Russia and stop making monumental miscalculations.

I think America's deep-state and globalist ideologues know this. Its just that they have had success first taking down the Soviet Union and then tearing bits off what you point has been Russia's historic sphere of control. Why stop now? Besides, a strong, nationalist, Christian Russia really ideologically threatens a leftist-globalist Europe. Can't have such a thing on one's doorstep.

12 posted on 06/17/2021 7:17:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: allendale

USA assumes that our values are universal. No. That’s not true. So we need to stop acting like it.


13 posted on 06/17/2021 7:20:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Spying”???

Reagan was walking around, shaking hands.

What sort of deep state secrets was anyone going to gather during this activity? Or any public activity of Reagan.

Now, if they had a picture of Putin under Reagan’s bed in his hotel room, THAT would be spying.


14 posted on 06/17/2021 7:33:36 AM PDT by doragsda
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To: MercyFlush

In 1988, Putin was clipping articles from western newspapers in that hotbed of the cold war, Dresden. He never was some kind of Mission Impossible assassin.
The weirdo mythology that has grown up around that guy is amazing.

Meanwhile GHW Bush was right in the middle of assassinating JFK.


15 posted on 06/17/2021 7:45:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: 1Old Pro

https://youtu.be/FaLTWW_yEG4?t=86

Bill Burr, “he had a 38, it was the 80s...”


16 posted on 06/17/2021 7:49:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

OMG - does this mean intelligence people all over the world might not self-identify when working?

Makes me wonder if our CIA people have ever spied on Putin - while pretending to be common ordinary citizens...

/s


17 posted on 06/17/2021 7:49:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Rape isn't penis violence. Arson isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: doragsda

Hey, we never have spies watch the entourage of foreign leaders when they visit DC. We have values./s


18 posted on 06/17/2021 7:53:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: GOPJ

Exactly, and if you are buying weed, all you have to do is ask if they’re a cop. They can’t lie, it’s against the rules or something.....


19 posted on 06/17/2021 7:55:45 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

funny


20 posted on 06/17/2021 8:05:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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