In 1985, the KGB sent Putin to East Germany, where he lived in Dresden under a false name and with a cover-up job as the head of a so-called German-Soviet friendship society. The exact nature of his real work there is still a matter of some debate; his main duties certainly included spying on member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , recruiting informers and agents, and collecting and analyzing data to send to Moscow. During his time in the divided Germany, Putin was exposed to a number of Western ideas, both economic and political, that would play a pivotal role in his post-KGB career.
With the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev and his erestroika ? and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe during the latter half of the 1980s, Putin work in East Germany was precipitously drawing to a close. He returned to Russia in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, as a decorated KGB agent. The agency rewarded him with an administrative post at his alma mater, Leningrad State University, that was largely a cover for him to continue intelligence work.
Shortly thereafter, Putin encountered his old law professor, Anatoly Sobchak, who by then had become chairman of the city council and one of Russia leading democrats. Drawn by the lure of politics, Putin left the KGB to become one of Sobchak key aides. After Sobchak won election as the first mayor of the newly renamed city of St. Petersburg in 1991, Putin was named deputy mayor in his administration. In addition to overseeing the daily operations of St. Petersburg, Putin was primarily responsible for opening the city to a good deal of foreign investment, including corporate giants such as Credit Lyonnais, Coca-Cola, and the Japanese electronics company NEC.
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