President Vladimir Putin’s bodyguards pick up his poop when he travels abroad, according to a report by two investigative journalists.
The statement was made through Régis Gente, author of two books on Russia, and Mikhail Rubin, who has covered Russia for 13 years, in a report published Thursday for the French news magazine Paris Match.
According to the article, the task of collecting Putin’s feces falls to the Federal Protective Service, Putin’s protection section, and other government officials.
According to People and Rubin, Putin has to go, an FSO agent puts his excrement in a specialized package so that he can send it back to Russia in a suitcase.
These excrement collections took place during Putin’s stopover in France on May 29, 2017 and his vacation in Saudi Arabia in October 2019, the journalists wrote.
One video, taken on Putin’s vacation to France in 2019, showed six men in attacks in Putin’s entourage accompanying him to the bathroom. One of them was seen leaving the bathroom with a small briefcase, the exact contents of which are unknown. .
The tactic appears to be an attempt to confront the threat of foreign powers discovering data about Putin’s fitness or his predilection for long-term ailments that could be contained in the 69-year-old’s DNA.
Journalist Farida Rustamova appeared to corroborate this information, saying on Twitter that she was aware of a similar incident in Vienna and mentioning, according to another source, that Putin’s bodyguards had been practicing this practice for years.
Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, speculation is growing that Putin, who has recently missed several regime events, was not feeling well, with several reports claiming that he was being treated for serious ailments.
Experts interviewed via Insider cast doubt on those reports and say there is still credible evidence that Putin is doing well.
According to sources, there are at least two examples of excrement interception being used as an intelligence technique.
In 2016, a former Soviet agent said he found evidence that Joseph Stalin tried to spy on Chinese Chairman Mao and other more sensible officials by analyzing their feces.
In another espionage case, British spies examined dirty toilet paper used by Soviet troops in East Germany during the Cold War, according to British military expert Tony Geraghty.
This, he said, was because the Soviets were not given toilet paper and resorted to army documents or non-public letters.
“Scouring through the detritus of military exercises, adding human excrement and worse, was a valuable strategy that produced gems of intelligence,” Geraghty wrote.
In early February, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected a Kremlin request to conduct a Russian COVID-19 test before an in-person meeting with Putin, fearing the test could simply be used to analyze his DNA, Reuters reported.
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