maxistentialist: This is an amazing picture. See the guy with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy? That’s current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pretending to be a tourist when we know today that he was a KGB agent. According to the photographer the Secret Service was under no illusions at the time however, and acknowledged the so-called “tourists” were KGB.

maxistentialist:

This is an amazing picture. See the guy with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy? That’s current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pretending to be a tourist when we know today that he was a KGB agent.

According to the photographer the Secret Service was under no illusions at the time however, and acknowledged the so-called “tourists” were KGB.

Reblogged from maxistentialist, 32 notes, March 18, 2009

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    maxistentialist:...Please somebody photoshop that stupid haircut onto Putin in the...
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    “You know what they say about this type of operation…” “Da! Da!” “Feet! Hat!”
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    huge history nerd, this photo/story makes me endlessly excited.
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