--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Putin's job was gathering intelligence in West
> Germany. He wasn't a secret policeman. I assume he
> thought of himself as a patriotic Soviet citizen
> protecting his country from the West. He says he was
> first drawn to the KGB by watching the movie "Sword
> and Shield" as a child. But since the KGB approached
> you for recruitment rather than vice versa, he went
> to
> university and then law school (or was that later? I
> know he has a Ph.D. in law.). Then the KGB recruited
> him as someone with talent. (If I remember the book
> of
> interviews with him that came out when he first
> became
> president correctly, that is.)
>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > How else would you describe a secret policeman,
> > Charles?
> >
> >
> > --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Chris Doss
> > >
> > >
> > > Putin was a KGB clerk/functionary for God's
> sake.
> > He
> > > was not a "super-privileged functionary." He
> > > probably
> > > earned less than I do.
> > >
> > > ^^^^^
> > > CB: Ah , but he was one of those evil,
> > undemocratic
> > > apparatchniks, no ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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