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Picture: Putin Pretending To Be Tourist During Reagan’s 1988 Visit To Moscow

March 16, 2009 · Filed Under Politics 

This is an amazing picture. See the guy with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy? That’s current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pretending to be a tourist when we know today that he was a KGB agent.

According to the photographer the Secret Service was under no illusions at the time however, and acknowledged the so-called “tourists” were KGB.

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43 Responses to “Picture: Putin Pretending To Be Tourist During Reagan’s 1988 Visit To Moscow”

  1. Joba on March 16th, 2009 12:56 pm

    Illusions.

  2. Jacob Maloy on March 16th, 2009 1:21 pm

    This reminds me of the famous photo of a young Bill Clinton with John F. Kennedy….

  3. bebo on March 16th, 2009 2:34 pm

    Allusions means “references made to other things”, the word you want is illusions, which means “things which are not really there or not as they seem”.

  4. Chris Jones on March 16th, 2009 3:42 pm

    Good catch — thanks

  5. sir jorge on March 16th, 2009 5:12 pm

    wow, now that’s a good photo

  6. theRealRandini on March 16th, 2009 5:28 pm

    Whoa!
    Hold it!
    This is obviously photoshopped….

    Reagan was never THAT young!

  7. Jonny on March 16th, 2009 7:25 pm

    Great photo. Putin was pretty smooth. It’s amazing how things work out… I wonder what’s going to happen next?

  8. Chris Jones on March 16th, 2009 7:47 pm

    I know, it’s weird how things work out.

  9. Clams on March 16th, 2009 10:37 pm

    That’s definitaly not Putin, I’m positive. The bridge of his nose is more curved, he has a stronger jawline and a weaker chin. And I’m fairly sure he’s not that tall. It must be some other blonde agent/tourist, that man looks nothing like him. It would have been interesting though. Plus, wasn’t Putin stationed in Germany then?

  10. my nameis on March 17th, 2009 8:32 am

    That’s NOT Putin.

  11. dailykos on March 17th, 2009 8:37 am

    Could be Elvis!

  12. cribley on March 17th, 2009 8:56 am

    A few reference images:

    http://imgur.com/RDI5.png

  13. ajrw on March 17th, 2009 11:26 am

    I’m pretty sure that’s Stephen Harper.

  14. Jason Alexander on March 17th, 2009 11:44 pm

    I am glad they did not catch Putin trying to pick pocket Reagan. Well the guy does look a little like Putin but not close enough. Also notice he is smilimg, Putin never does except when he hears about the death of one of his political oponents.

  15. Dan on March 18th, 2009 8:48 pm

    Christ, you people! It seems like you cant post a picture ANYWHERE on the internet without some retard posting OMG PHOTOSHOP.

    This is a well-known picture, and like he mentioned in the post.. the CIA acknowledged that it was him.

  16. Brian on March 18th, 2009 11:49 pm

    Only one person said OMG PHOTOSHOP, and they were just making a joke about Reagan. Everyone else was just debating whether the tourist/agent was Putin or somebody else.

  17. Gadget on March 19th, 2009 4:58 am

    JEEZ
    the guy does’nt even looks like Putin

  18. boogerz on March 19th, 2009 9:14 am

    Your nose changes as you age. It does look like him. Probably is. Who cares? Either way its a great photo of Reagan, which is all that matters.

    To “clams” who said the nose, jaw, face, etc. was so different… It’s called aging. Maybe he looked that way cuz a few moments later, The Gipper knocked his ass down and told them all “There’s plenty more where that came stateside, biatches”.

  19. Leandrok on March 19th, 2009 11:10 am

    Can you recognize the kid? It´s Maria Sharapova!

  20. Putin on March 19th, 2009 11:43 am

    And wait to see what has become of the boy reaching for Reagan!! Wa ha ha ha!! (scary laugh)

    :P

  21. danilo on March 19th, 2009 9:18 pm

    it’s daniel craig, the 007… for sure…

  22. LDSilver on March 19th, 2009 10:03 pm

    “Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR – DOWN – THIS – WALL!”

  23. Agent005 on March 21st, 2009 8:13 am

    The man on the left is not Putin. That’s my uncle.

  24. RINGWORM on March 21st, 2009 4:40 pm

    It’s unka Jed!

  25. tomo iisaka on March 23rd, 2009 5:47 am

    これマジ？ レーガン大統領の前に立つKGB時代のプーチンの写真て http://tinyurl.com/cx77gw

  26. Bluekid on March 23rd, 2009 7:52 am

    2009.3.20

    ha ha …. as Brian said they were just making a joke about Reagan. um….you know this is the point.

    i’d love this picture coz Reagan’s hand coming out to the kid with smiling face. it’s very…. very good act. but the little boy wasn’t looking at his eyes as he shook hands, frankly.

  27. Andrei Pervychine on March 25th, 2009 1:22 am

    Putin pretending to be tourist http://tinyurl.com/cx77gw

  28. Jérôme Sadou on March 25th, 2009 7:23 am

    Retweeting @Durf: Awesome! http://ping.fm/gFOwu his spy camera is not so discreet :-)

  29. Obama Sucks ! on March 25th, 2009 10:56 pm

    @@ JUST want to say(( Obama ))is a shady liar!! ohh and the pic is sweet-@@

  30. Derek Pangallo on March 26th, 2009 4:59 am

    Picture: Putin Pretending To Be Tourist During Reagan’s 1988 Visit To Moscow http://ff.im/-1JrUs

  31. chriz on March 26th, 2009 5:59 am

    not bad……… it is his opportunity to meet known poeple

  32. Matt McCarty on March 26th, 2009 4:55 pm

    Putin posing as a photojournalist (while he was actually KGB) during Reagan’s 1988 visit to moscow http://is.gd/nDjq

  33. Martín Fernández on April 10th, 2009 8:30 pm

    una gran foto de putin http://tinyurl.com/cx77gw

  34. Geoff MacIntosh on April 23rd, 2009 7:08 pm

    KGB agent Vladimir Putin and U.S. president Ronald Reagan, Moscow, 1988. One is pretending to be a tourist, guess which? http://tr.im/jxu1

  35. Bowen on May 6th, 2009 10:21 am

    That’s definitely Putin. Crazy fucking Russians….

  36. Jim on May 8th, 2009 1:57 pm

    There are pictures of Putin from the 1980’s. His hairline was already well receded by then. Not him.

  37. johnwenman on May 17th, 2009 4:40 pm

    RT @tweetmeme Picture: Putin Pretending To Be Tourist During Reagan’s 1988 Visit To Moscow http://tinyurl.com/cx77gw

  38. oberst on July 4th, 2009 12:21 am

    that only vaguely resembles vladimir putin.

  39. Upcoming Events on July 13th, 2009 1:35 am

    He’s obviously trying very hard to look like a tourist, especially with the camera hanging around the front. What else could you expect in 1988 in Moscow, but a bunch of KGB agents pretending to be tourists.

  40. Katie Mills on August 5th, 2009 3:48 am

    Putin Pretending To Be Tourist During Reagan’s 1988 Visit To Moscow http://tinyurl.com/cx77gw

  41. mc mosley silence on December 12th, 2009 9:29 pm

    Picture: Putin Pretending To Be Tourist During Reagan’s 1988 Visit To Moscow http://ow.ly/LkdX

  42. nedir bilgi on January 27th, 2010 1:26 am

    The man on the left is not Putin. That’s my grandfather.

  43. DeviceBox on February 11th, 2010 8:38 am

    Hmmm, it’s interesting photo. Is it really Putin?

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