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Putin's East German identity card found in Stasi archives |
2018-12-12 |
The card for "Maj Vladimir Putin" was discovered among Soviet-era personnel files in Dresden, where Putin served as a KGB officer in the 1980s. It bore stamps and was validated through 1989, the German newspaper Bild reported, along with a photograph of the identification card. The archive head told Bild that the card would have let Putin enter Stasi offices unhindered and made it easier to recruit agents, because he would not have had to mention his KGB affiliation. It was not clear whether the card indicated Putin worked directly for the Stasi. The Kremlin neither confirmed nor denied that Putin was issued a Stasi identification. "At those times, the times of the USSR, the KGB and the Stasi were partner services, and so such an exchange of IDs should perhaps not be ruled out," Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said. Some of the Russian leader’s most formative years, details of which remain secret, were spent in Dresden. Putin arrived in the German city in the mid-1980s on his first foreign posting with the KGB. On the night of 5 December 1989, he phoned Russia for orders as a crowd prepared to storm the KGB residence. The Berlin Wall had fallen less than a month earlier. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#15 @ #10 - BULL'S EYE |
Posted by: Clem 2018-12-12 18:27 |
#14 Does it have Trump's phone number on the back? |
Posted by: Bobby 2018-12-12 17:20 |
#13 How much is it worth on eBay? |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-12-12 11:20 |
#12 East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy And it appears they succeeded... |
Posted by: Glenmore 2018-12-12 11:11 |
#11 "Mr. Putin’s is merely a curiosity, not meaningful." That's correct. And he found out just how meaningful he was when he wanted Soviet troops to crush the protestors in Dresden in 1989. Nobody in Moscow picked up the phone. |
Posted by: European Conservative 2018-12-12 10:36 |
#10 They have their 'deep state'. We have ours. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-12 10:27 |
#9 The Stasi tried to recrruit eveybody, and succeeded well enough — to absolutely no one’s surprise afterward. And since the country was wholly owned subsidiary of the KGB, granting a piece of paper to the young Mr, Putin, emissary from Moscow, did no more than imorove daily efficiency, Procopius2k nailed it — Mr. Putin’s is merely a curiosity, not meaningful. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-12 09:57 |
#8 Call me when someone finds Nellie Ohr's CIA gate badge. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-12 09:34 |
#7 East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy Why buy a cow when they're giving away milk? |
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-12-12 09:30 |
#6 Wonder what it would fetch on eBay? Sort of like old baseball cards? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-12 09:17 |
#5 Did they find Hillary's as well? |
Posted by: Raj 2018-12-12 07:24 |
#4 "that the card would have let Putin enter Stasi offices unhindered and made it easier to recruit agents, because he would not have had to mention his KGB affiliation" LOL, a Russian recruiting agents could never work for the KGB in the first place. |
Posted by: European Conservative 2018-12-12 06:18 |
#3 East German Stasi tried to recruit Merkel as a spy Politics on the other hand. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-12 04:56 |
#2 Did they find Merkels yet? |
Posted by: BrerRabbit 2018-12-12 04:49 |
#1 The alleged migrant destabilization of Europe....why can't we just talk about something else ? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-12 03:06 |