Former members of the Russian KGB and FSB consider the recently uncovered US spy ring a humiliation and an embarrassment. They say it shows what a pathetic state the once mighty Russian intelligence services are in.

The LA Times has the full story.

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.