Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Country of origin
From: Nathan Wajsman <belgiangator@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 07:18:48 -0800 (PST)

That is exactly what I meant. Like any other big
country, Russia needs/wants an intelligence service.

Nathan

- --- Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com> wrote:
> Let's not also forget that not all of the KGB was
> involved with
> repression. I don't know what percentage was
> involved in what but a lot
> of KGB officers were just intelligence operatives
> who did essentially
> the same thing as any other country's intelligence
> agency - ran spies
> and analysed information for policymakers. By all
> accounts the KGB was
> extrememly professional and successful in this and I
> imagine quite a lot
> of these people are still working for the RVS
> (which, if memory serves,
> is the agency which succeeded the KGB).
> 
> Simon Stevens
> 
> 
> 
> 


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