PUTIN KGB DAYS

PUTIN'S KGB DAYS A letter from the archives of the infamous Stasi sheds new light on the role of the Russian leader in I. Germany Putin once said: 'We burned papers night and day. We destroyed everything ... ' Author: Karla Juničić / Euractiv.hrPosted: June 26, 2020 10:15 pm xxx AFP / Profimedia Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS Vladimir Putin TRANSPARENT Ahead of the referendum on his mandate, Vladimir Putin increased taxes on the rich CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC Angela Merkel called on the European Union to show extraordinary solidarity at the time of the crown Vladimir Putin's contribution as he served as the secret agent of the powerful KGB intelligence service in Dresden before the fall of the Berlin Wall remains shrouded in mystery. It is known that Putin arrived in Dresden in 1985. He was then 33 years old and with his wife Ludmila he enjoyed the advantages of the East German (GDR) standards over the Soviet Union. In the Dresden archives of the Stasi, the secret police of the GDR, nothing more can be found today than a thin fragmented file on Putin. One clue, a letter to Horst Böhm , the then head of Dresden's Stasi agents, asking for a telephone connection for German police informants who "support us", proves that Putin played an important role. Because no one could send a direct letter to Böhm. silence. But no one speaks openly about his real role. The legendary head of the Stasi agents' department and Putin's former colleague, Markus Wolf , said that the Russian president was "very marginal" and that even "the cleaners won his bronze medal". Vladimir Usoltsev , a colleague with whom Putin shared an office, admits in his book describing the daily lives of KGB members in Dresden that they had a role in hiring new agents, but spent most of their time writing "meaningless reports." Russian state television also claimed that Putin had not participated in illegal operations. Dresden was in the province anyway and far from the actual actions that took place in East Berlin. But it was the provincial character of Dresden that made it possible to carry out activities away from the main events, spy eyes and the French, Americans and West Germans who were watching the situation in East Berlin. Dresden became a place where Western terrorist organizations met with KGB agents and Stasi. Putin was stationed in Dresden only to carry out missions aimed at destabilizing the West. Today, a former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof group and one of the most influential left-wing terrorist groups in West Germany, claims their members met in Dresden. Putin provided support to members of a group that spread terror in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. The KGB has established links with a number of left-wing terrorist organizations, most notably the PFLP, the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which represents the most radical current within Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) . Campsites The organization was responsible for a series of hijackings and bombings in the late 1960s and 1970s, and secret documents from the archives of the Soviet Politburo prove that the KGB provided weapons to PFLP leader Wadie Haddad and appointed him its "secret agent." At the same time, the Stasi became the main support for the KGB. In 1969, they opened a secret training camp outside East Berlin for PLO members and created a network of terrorist training camps throughout the Middle East. The late 1960s were marked by a series of attacks, assassinations, kidnappings and bank robberies by Baader-Meinhof militants. After police intensified the persecution and arrests, members of the group found refuge in East Germany where the Stasians gave them a false identity. Subsequent research proved that their collaboration was much deeper because secret agents were linked to the bombing of a U.S. military base in Ramstein in 1981 and the attempted assassination of a U.S. general. The crimes and their involvement have never been investigated, nor have the connections between the KGB and the RAF. crimes The Soviets were monitoring Stasi operations at the time, and KGB control was so great that a former RAF member said that Erich Mielke, the Stasi chief accused of crimes, "could not even fart without first getting permission from Moscow." ''. Putin worked in that environment. The former RAF member curses the encounters according to which they would travel by train to East Germany where they met with Stasi's agents. They would meet them in a Soviet Zill car that would take them to a safe house in Dresden. Putin and another KGB colleague would join them. "They would never give us instructions directly. They would just say: We heard you were planning it, how do you want to do it? And made suggestions. They would suggest other goals and ask us what we need. We always needed weapons and money. " The RAF could not buy weapons in West Germany, so the list had to be handed over to Putin and colleagues. RAF activities in the West have become a key part of the KGB's attempts to overthrow and destabilize the West, claims a former member of a terrorist group who believes they have become Putin's puppets. According to him, Putin was among the leaders at those meetings, and one of Stasi's generals was just taking orders. Similar allegations are refuted by many of Putin's close associates. The story of the former RAF member is impossible to verify because most of his colleagues are in prison or dead. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Putin and other people from the KGB barricaded themselves in their villa. In an interview, Putin said: "We burned papers night and day. We destroyed everything - all our communication, contact lists and networks of our agents. I personally burned a huge amount of material. We set fire to so many things that the stove broke. "