Are Putin's Exploits As A KGB Spy Exaggerated?

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The Telegraph: Putin’s exploits as KGB spy likely to have been exaggerated, investigation finds 

Vladimir Putin was not a Soviet super spy in East Germany in the 1980s but a plodding pen-pusher eager to please his superiors, an investigation has found. Germany’s Spiegel magazine investigated Mr Putin’s murky past on the suspicion that stories of his exploits as a KGB agent were exaggerated. 

Instead of conducting vital missions to hold back the forces of democracy, Spiegel said that Mr Putin was focused on “banal” administrative work during his KGB posting to Dresden, “endlessly sorting through travel applications for West German relatives or searching for potential informants among foreign students”.

Mr Putin was a 32-year-old officer when he was sent to Dresden in 1985, a tense time with the Kremlin’s grip over its vassal states fracturing. 

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Update: Vladimir Putin was never the Soviet super spy he'd like us to believe. He was merely a KGB 'errand boy,' report says (Insider)  

WNU Editor: If Putin was just an errand boy in the KGB, he would never have been in a position to become President of Russia on January 31, 1999.