The German Democratic Republic of Putin was sent to work in 1985. According to his official biography, “he served in a territorial scout in Dresden under the guise of the position of director of the Friendship House of the USSR – GDR.”
Shvets denied that Putin was engaged in intelligence activities in the GDR.
“The GDR did not have the KGB residency and, according to the order, the State Security Committee did not conduct intelligence activities in the territory of socialist countries, especially in the GDR, which was one of the most friendly to the Soviet regime. The Eastern Germans had its own magnificent intelligence intelligence, the main thing was not to interfere with it, they themselves did all the work and reported to Moscow,” Putin's fellow student said.
According to him, there was no residency in the GDR (this is a conspiratorial division of intelligence of one state in the territory of another, “and there were several official representative offices of the KGB, including in Dresden, where Putin was sent.
“At the time of the USSR, traveling abroad was a real event for any Soviet citizen. And the KGB arranged for employees of the territorial units this” holiday of life. “The KGB officer was sent for several years in the GDR, where he smoked the sky and returned to his homeland with a German camera with the Karl Zeis lens and with the Madonna tablespoon. These two standard things were practically the only one. The result of his “intelligence” in the GDR, ”Shvets described the situation.
He emphasized that “Putin was the same.”
“His duties are the director of the Friendship House of the USSR – the GDR entered the clearing for senior comrades from Moscow, to feed, to drink, to leave in local stores, to cover the clearing again, to immerse insensitive bodies on the plane and send back to Moscow. Here is the whole intelligence of Putin in the GDR,” Schvets said.
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The fellow student of Putin 10 years ago confirmed that Putin’s abilities of his work in the KGB “were below the average, and he never did real intelligence.”
“During his studies, dozens of teachers and professional instructors studied him, each of whom, after studying, wrote the appropriate characteristic for graduates. I saw some of these characteristics – these are analytical studies that are amazing in the depth of the description of the intellectual and psychological abilities of the object,” Shvets said.
Context
Shvets was born in 1952 in Kharkov. At the Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR named after Yu.V. Andropova studied with Putin. In the 1980s, in the midst of the Cold War, he was a scout in the United States. He worked under the cover of the correspondent of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), collected and analyzed information about the possible sudden nuclear strike of America in the USSR. In 1990, Shvets quit the service, and three years later emigrated to the United States, where he published the book “Washington residency: my life of the KGB spy in America.”
Putin from 1985 to 1990 worked at the KGB representative in Dresden. He was an employee of culture in Dresden (officially working in the GDR along the KGB line, he was listed as an employee of the House of Soviet-German Friendship).
