Malden and Noth watching Putin watch Reagan.
By now you may have seen the 20-year old photo that surfaced this week. It shows a young Vladimir Putin posing as an innocent tourist, just casually running into President Reagan on the streets of Moscow. You know, back in the days when Vlad was an eager young KGB agent.
Pete Souza, who is now President Obama’s official photographer, snapped the photo in 1988 while working for the Reagan White House.
Who knows? Maybe it’s Putin, maybe it’s not. But what we find amazing is that we are the first to identify two other people in the photo.
We’ve labeled Putin as #1 in this photo. The man we’ve labeled as #2 appears to be actor Chris Noth of “Sex and the City” and “Law & Order.” The man we’ve labeled as #3 is definitely actor Karl Malden of “The Streets of San Francisco” and “Patton.” (Click image for larger photo.)
It’s well-known that the KGB often planted agents and had them portray ordinary Soviet citizens. But we now have photographic evidence that the Reagan White House played a tense game of diplomatic oneupsmanship and had actors portray agents.
Take that, Vladimir Putin.
Source: Sky News
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One presumes that this is being said tongue in cheek…#2 is far too ugly to be Chris Noth….and #3 more closely resembles Alan Greenspan than Karl Malden….want some ham on that wry?
Yea I thought Greenspan was a closer match too!