{"id":73561,"date":"2019-11-01T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73561"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:15:06","slug":"putin-was-conscientious-and-disciplined-spy-kgb-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/putin-was-conscientious-and-disciplined-spy-kgb-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin was \u2018conscientious and disciplined\u2019 spy: KGB documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Declassified KGB documents on display in Russia describe future President Vladimir Putin as a \u201cconscientious and disciplined\u201d spy at the start of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now 67, Putin worked for the secret service from the mid-1970s and was posted in Dresden, then East Germany, from 1985 to 1990, as Soviet power was crumbling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Kremlin he has surrounded himself with many former employees of the secret service and the FSB, the successor to the KGB, remains a powerful agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KGB profile is part of an exhibition at the Central Archive of Historical and Political Documents in Russia\u2019s second city of Saint Petersburg, featuring other declassified files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young Putin also received \u201ccongratulations from his seniors\u201d in the organisation \u201cfor his well organised work and results,\u201d the document said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declassified KGB documents on display in Russia describe future President Vladimir Putin as a \u201cconscientious and disciplined\u201d spy at the start of his career. Now 67, Putin worked for the secret service from the mid-1970s and was posted in Dresden, then East Germany, from 1985 to 1990, as Soviet power was crumbling. In the Kremlin [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73563,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73561\/revisions\/73563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}