Putin cracks spy joke to jeer bureaucracy
MOSCOW: Russian PM Vladimir Putin used an old secret service joke to demonstrate the levels of bureaucracy plaguing his country.
The joke came days after a bomb blast killed 35 people in a Moscow airport that critics blamed on lapses in security and bureaucratic corruption.
"So an American spy comes to Lubyanka," Putin reportedly told a meeting, referring to the KGB headquarters. "I am a spy and I want to turn myself in," Putin continued. "Are you armed?" the US spy is asked, to which he responds yes. "Then you have to go to room no. 7," a Russian official tells him, according to Putin. There the spy is asked if he's carrying communication equipment another yes sends him to yet another official's office . In the end, the exasperated spy is asked by yet another official if he has an actual assignment to work on. "Yes," says the spy. "Then go carry it out and stop bothering people at work," he is told.
The joke came days after a bomb blast killed 35 people in a Moscow airport that critics blamed on lapses in security and bureaucratic corruption.
"So an American spy comes to Lubyanka," Putin reportedly told a meeting, referring to the KGB headquarters. "I am a spy and I want to turn myself in," Putin continued. "Are you armed?" the US spy is asked, to which he responds yes. "Then you have to go to room no. 7," a Russian official tells him, according to Putin. There the spy is asked if he's carrying communication equipment another yes sends him to yet another official's office . In the end, the exasperated spy is asked by yet another official if he has an actual assignment to work on. "Yes," says the spy. "Then go carry it out and stop bothering people at work," he is told.
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