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Biden claims heâs âknownâ Russiaâs Vladimir Putin âfor over 40 yearsâ â even when he was undercover KGB agent
President Biden claimed Thursday that he has âknownâ Vladimir Putin âfor over 40 yearsâ â despite Russiaâs president having served as an undercover KGB intelligence ofâŚ
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âIâve known him for over 40 years. Heâs concerned me for 40 years. Heâs not a decent man,â Biden, 81, told ABC News anchor David Muir during an interview in France at the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
So let's understand...
I was suddenly a man on a mission. I realised it was a long shot so I started with former Labour Cabinet minister Warren Freer. Freer and I had worked together on the 1972 election campaign that catapulted Norman Kirk into the prime ministerâs job, and I knew that, in 1955, he was the first Western politician to visit China since the communist revolution there six years before. I took early photographs of Putin and asked Freer if he recalled this man, could he remember anything about him? It took a while for Freer to remember, but he did
He thought his name was AndrĂŠ, a Bata shoe salesman. He remembered a man exactly like Putin with more hair who asked a lot of questions, loved chocolate biscuits and had âan eye for the ladiesâ. He recalled AndrĂŠâs interest in the young Helen Clark, a dead ringer for Joan Baez, minus the guitar. I was on my way.
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Metro â Putin and Me
Bob Harvey searches for evidence of the Russian president's time in New Zealand
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So when Biden knew Putin 40 years ago, Putin was an undercover KGB agent working in New Zealand.
That Joe...!