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David Cameron’s favourite after dinner anecdote, that he was approached by the KGB on a trip to Russia when he was just 18, was in fact just a “gay pick-up” by a couple of black-market salesmen, a Russian expert has claimed. | David Cameron’s favourite after dinner anecdote, that he was approached by the KGB on a trip to Russia when he was just 18, was in fact just a “gay pick-up” by a couple of black-market salesmen, a Russian expert has claimed. |
Recalling his gap-year, spent finding himself with a friend in the former USSUR, Cameron claims that “two Russians who spoke perfect English sort of turned up on the beach, which was mainly reserved for foreign tourists.” | Recalling his gap-year, spent finding himself with a friend in the former USSUR, Cameron claims that “two Russians who spoke perfect English sort of turned up on the beach, which was mainly reserved for foreign tourists.” |
“They took us out to dinner and interrogated us in a friendly way about life in England and what we thought and politics,” says Cameron, who on return to the UK had his suspicions confirmed by a tutor; it was an attempt to sign the future PM up to the KGB, the USSR's notorious secret service. | “They took us out to dinner and interrogated us in a friendly way about life in England and what we thought and politics,” says Cameron, who on return to the UK had his suspicions confirmed by a tutor; it was an attempt to sign the future PM up to the KGB, the USSR's notorious secret service. |
But Russian security analyst, Gennady Sokolo, is not convinced by Cameron’s story. | But Russian security analyst, Gennady Sokolo, is not convinced by Cameron’s story. |
"If the KGB had a task to work with a 19-year-old unknown young man Cameron, there would have remained certain paperwork on this matter,” claimed Sokolo, in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. | "If the KGB had a task to work with a 19-year-old unknown young man Cameron, there would have remained certain paperwork on this matter,” claimed Sokolo, in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. |
"We have cautiously asked well-informed people if there is a file on Cameron in KGB archives. We got a definite reply that there is no such file in the archives, and there was no such file earlier. The KGB was not working on Cameron." | "We have cautiously asked well-informed people if there is a file on Cameron in KGB archives. We got a definite reply that there is no such file in the archives, and there was no such file earlier. The KGB was not working on Cameron." |
Sokolo has even claimed that he’s tracked down the two men, who he says were in fact just black market salesmen attempting to buy banned Western goods from tourists. | Sokolo has even claimed that he’s tracked down the two men, who he says were in fact just black market salesmen attempting to buy banned Western goods from tourists. |
He said: "The pair planned to buy some foreign stuff like jeans to resell them later and, after all, to make friends with two nice looking British guys - there was also a gay motive." | He said: "The pair planned to buy some foreign stuff like jeans to resell them later and, after all, to make friends with two nice looking British guys - there was also a gay motive." |
The Prime Minister has reassured us that he did not join the KGB. |
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