Putin back when he was just a tourist?
well I am skeptical.. this story doesn't add up..
There is no way Obama had enough balls to try to smear Putin..
Michelle maybe.. but not Barack. :shock:
Did Vladimir Putin meet Ronald Reagan as an undercover KGB man?
Vladimir Putin is at the centre of a bizarre controversy after the release of a photograph
allegedly showing the former KGB spy disguised as a member of a tourist party
instructed to harangue Ronald Reagan over his human rights record.
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According to Pete Souza, President Barack Obama's official photographer, a picture he took in Red Square 21 years ago indicates that Mr Putin was part of a KGB plot to embarrass Reagan on his first ever visit to Moscow.
allegedly the former KGB spy disguised as a member of a tourist party instructed to harangue Ronald Reagan over his human rights record.
Political sources said the Kremlin was convinced that the Obama administration had approved the photograph's release in an attempt to smear Mr Putin.
Mr Souza, however, is categorical about the authenticity of the photograph. He told National Public Radio in the United States that the incident occurred when Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet general secretary, toured Red Square in the Summer of 1988.
Mr Souza was a member of the delegation in his capacity as Reagan's official photographer.Reagan was led to a group of Russian tourists who had apparently been positioned in Red Square to unleash a series of pointed questions about America's human rights record.
Mr Souza says that a secret service officer told him the tourists were in fact "all KGB families."
"Now what is really interesting is a picture I have in my Reagan book," he said. "Off to the left is one of these tourists with a camera around his shoulder and it has been pointed out to me and verified that that was Putin."
"As soon as you see the picture you go: 'Oh my gosh, it really is him.'"
Pete Souza is the official chief White House photographer for Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama administrations. The Kremlin, however, had denied that it was Putin.
well I am skeptical.. this story doesn't add up..
There is no way Obama had enough balls to try to smear Putin..
Michelle maybe.. but not Barack. :shock: