Posted on 06/05/2023 12:34:47 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely never the elite Soviet spy that the world has been led to believe, an investigaton by the German news outlet Der Spiegel has revealed.
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according to Der Spiegel's report, the majority of Putin's work was actually limited to "banal" administrative tasks.
Citing one of Putin's former colleagues at the KGB's Dresden office, it says his "work consisted primarily of endlessly reviewing applications for West German relatives' visits or searching for potential informants among foreign students at Dresden University."
The report says that Putin is rarely mentioned in Stasi — the name of the East German secret police — records. In those that do reference him, it is only in regards to things like his birthday or administrative tasks, none provide evidence to back up the stories mentioned previously.
Horst Jehmlich, a former Stasi officer who also worked in Dresden, told Der Spiegel that Putin was nothing more than an "errand boy."
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Did Putin pretend that he was some Soviet Super-Spy ?
No but he’s certainly much smarter than the Biden and Blinken brigade....
Why would the Stasi records have accurate info re KGB hierarchies?
Those psy-ops guys at the Pentagon are getting tired. They are all Trumped out. They need to find a different line of work.
Maybe we’ll FAFO and get a hard core psycho instead. Is that what you want?
He’s always been known as being a “good bureaucrat” during his KGB days. Never heard he was supposedly some super spy. Some Westerners who don’t understand the KGB might have assumed he was a spy, but as far as I know he was never billed to have been one.
He was 37 years old when the Berlin Wall fell
Does one make it to “super spy” by that age?
Putin went from KGB Lt. Colonel to running the new KGB (FSB) to running Russia, to becoming the first new dictator of post-Soviet Russia.
Didn’t he run the East Berlin office in the late 80’s? Not an amateur posting for sure, if true.
The Dim media wants us to forget that they heart throbbed over Putin in the Bush years, just like they had Gorbasms during the Reagan years. (typed in my best Rush voice)
He was 37 years old when the Berlin Wall fell
Does one make it to “super spy” by that age?
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As a bureaucrat and administrator, no. As significant player in the field do spy-craft, yes and significantly younger too. We’re starting guys in their early 20’s these days.
Dresden, not East Berlin. Dresden was a crap assignment for losers like Putin.
If the Czars still ran Russia, he would have worked for the Okhrana.
Chris Wray turns light out locks door.
Putin’s KGB specialty in Leningrad before he was deported to Dresden was homo blackmail videos.
Lol. I don’t doubt it. Honey/sausage pot is one of the most effective out there. Just ask Clinton, Gates, et al.
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