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hotair.com - 3/19/2009
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Maybe Vladimir Putin is Russia’s Forrest Gump. Matthew Continetti at The Weekly Standard discovers this photographic gem at Foreign Policy , from Ronald Reagan’s visit to Moscow in 1988. Standing on the left, with cameras around his neck looking very much like a tourist, is a man ...
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OK, this is weird:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... Gorbachev introduced Reagan to various tourists, who asked the American president pointed questions about subjects such as human rights in the United States. Souza says he remembers turning to one of the Secret Service agents standing nearby. "I can't believe these tourists in the Soviet Union are asking these pointed questions." The agent replied, "Oh, these are all KGB families." The photo was posted on Foreign Policy's blog FP , though Ed Morrisey expresses some doubts on Hot Air . We report, you decide.
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