Captain Aleksandr Nikitin, who exposed Soviet nuclear dumping in the Arctic three decades ago, said in 2000 when someone described Vladimir Putin as a former KGB officer that “there are no former KGB officers just as there are no former German shepherds” because they are a separate species whose members cannot change their spots.
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Paul Goble: Another reason there are no ex-KGB officers
A picture taken on June 6, 2016 shows Russian soldiers walking past the local headquarters of the FSB, formerly the KGB, in central Saint Petersburg.
