Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181029:01:24:00
Putin to the head of the successor of the kgb. the man who always wanted to be a spy now commanded the motherland's domestic intelligence service. >> i can imagine that vladimir putin was looking at the fsb as being a very important institution that he understood because he was from that world. >> putin soon had the fsb utilize some old kgb tricks. obtaining compromising material called kompromat on a targeted individual to gain leverage. >> when he became director of the fsb, the prosecutor general in moscow, a man named skoriatov was starting to prosecute a number of crimes around the yeltsi...