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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Country of origin
From: Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:40:41 -0500
 
>Finally, let us not forget that although Communism has collapsed,
Russia is still a big country
>with an authoritarian tradition and most of the ex-Soviet spooks are
doing exactly the same job
>today as they did 10 years ago.

Nathan

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