Must be in the KGB job description.
SAS spy's memoir claims he 'probably saved Gorbachev's life'
Pilgrim Spy – published under pseudonym Tom Shore – also claims a ‘third generation’ Baader-Meinhof gang came close to halting the fall of the Berlin Wall
by Alison Flood
The Guardian, Sept. 8, 2018
Excerpt...
Another twist in Shore’s story is his time with Vladimir Putin, then head of the KGB in Saxony, who was involved in the Soviet drive to halt reform.
“At the time he was a major. Admittedly he was the head of the KGB in Saxony but he was an unknown,” said Shore. “His presence at the rallies and other locations just confirmed the Russians and East German authorities were doing their best to stamp out the freedom movement. There was no hint that one day he might become the most powerful and dangerous man on the planet. My personal paranoia grew, which it does when you’re working alone and undercover – he quickly became an itch I couldn’t scratch. He was just always there.”
According to Shore, two of the men involved in the plot to assassinate Gorbachev are still active and on Germany’s most wanted list.
The former soldier says that he is “proud to have played a small part in the liberation of a nation”, but adds that “the events leading up to and immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall changed me for the worse and for ever”.
“The things I saw, the decisions I made, the actions I was forced to take at the time, turned me into a person that I struggle to live with, even today. For many years, these events totally destroyed my faith in human nature, reducing any notions of friendship to nothing more than a hollow gesture,” he writes.
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/08/sas-spy-memoir-claims-he-probably-saved-gorbachev-life-pilgrim-spy-tom-shore
And Trump listens to him over his own Intelligence Community.
= new reply since forum marked as read
