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

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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• Russian President Vladimir Putin has been portrayed as an elite KGB intelligence officer in the 1980s.
• But a new report from Der Spiegel suggests he was never the super spy he was thought to be.
• His role involved mainly "banal" administrative tasks such as sorting through travel applications.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was likely never the elite Soviet spy that the world has been led to believe...