Surprising archival revelation: Putin was the stasi, a member of the fall of the Berlin wall until

Russian president Vladimir Putin was once also East germany's dreaded security service, the Stasi ”employed”.Vladimir Putin will discuss with Angela Merkel with the German. EPA/AOP

the Stasi archives have now found unexpectedly, for 28 years East germany after the fall of the Vladimir Putin Stasi id card, which was in force in 1989 until the end.

the Berlin wall fell in November 1989, i.e. thus, at present the Russian leader of acting Putin was the East German security service member, from Eastern Germany to the bitter end.

was renewed every three months,

KGB spy in East Germany in Dresden served as major Vladimir Putin received a Stasi id card in December 1985, when he was 33 years old.

identity card was renewed every three months. Stasi Dresden records found in the identity card is putin's signature and official stamp.

id card does not, however, automatically mean that Putin should be working with the Stasi. The Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov according to KGB and Stasi were partners and were able, therefore, to grant each other personal cards.

– until now, not been known that a KGB agent in Dresden until 1990 to Putin had a Stasi id card. His name is not found in the folder, on which was listed all the Stasi id card received soviet military personnel, the Stasi archives director Konrad Felber , 65, said Tuesday's Bild newspaper.

facilitated the solicitation

So far, it has been known that Putin worked as a KGB spy in Dresden. Putin's wife, Lyudmila gave birth to the couple's first-born Marijan in the fall of 1985, and another daughter Katerina 1986.

the Family lived in a six-storey apartment house in the radeberger street. Putin was a local fishing club member, he made trips to the Lada Shigulillaan and drank my favorite beer from radeberger to your favorite bar in Zum Thorissa.

putin's mission was to recruit German spies. Felberin according to the Stasi id card with the help of Putin was able to come and go relatively freely Stasi premises when wanted.

I'm sure it was made easier by the new spies of the solicitation, because Putin didn't need to reveal he's working for the KGB, Kelber said Bild.

it is not Known why Putin never destroyed identity cards to be returning back to Moscow in the beginning of 1990.

Sources: Bild, Der Spiegel