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If I am not mistaken, Putin was very influential and may even have ran
the First Chief Directorate of the KGB. This was concerned with
basically spying on foreign countries opposed to the Soviets, and he
is now running Russia. I would go along this angle of thought.
Hope it helps.
Dave
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