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Why Do Putin’s Bodyguards Collect His Poop On Trips Abroad?

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OB Bureau

New Delhi: Did you know that one of the tasks of Russia’s Federal Protection Service is to ensure that President Vladimir Putin’s poop is not flushed when he travels abroad? Instead, his bodyguards collect it and bring it back to Russia.

This startling revelation was made by two investigative journalists.

The claim was made by Regis Gente, the author of two books on Russia, and Mikhail Rubin, who has covered Russia for 13 years, a Thursday report of the French news magazine Paris Match wrote.

According to Gente and Rubin, each time Putin needs to go, an FSO agent places his excrement in a specialized packet so that it can be returned to Russia in a suitcase.

Such excrement collections happened during Putin’s visit to France on May 29, 2017, and during his October 2019 trip to Saudi Arabia, the reporters wrote.

A video, taken during a Putin trip to France in 2019, showed six suited men in Putin’s entourage accompanying him into a bathroom. One of them was seen exiting the bathroom holding a small briefcase, though it is unclear what it contained, Business Insider India reported.

It appears to be an effort to reduce the risk of foreign powers discovering information about Putin’s health or predilection for future conditions that could be contained in the 69-year-old’s DNA.

The journalist Farida Rustamova appeared to corroborate the report. She said on Twitter that she was aware of a similar incident in Vienna, and cited another source who said Putin’s bodyguards have carried out the practice for years, the report added.

There is a lot of speculation about Putin’s health with several reports claiming that he is being treated for a variety of serious conditions.

More examples of poop interception being used as an intelligence technique, as reported by Business Insider:

  • In 2016, a former Soviet agent said he discovered evidence that Joseph Stalin tried to spy on China’s Chairman Mao and other top officials by analyzing their excrement.
  • In another instance of poop espionage, British spies sifted through soiled toilet paper used by Soviet troops in East Germany during the Cold War, according to the British military expert Tony Geraghty.  This was because the Soviets were not given toilet paper and often resorted to using military documents or personal letters instead, he said.
  • In early February, French President Emmanuel Macron refused a request from the Kremlin to take a Russian COVID-19 test ahead of an in-person meeting with Putin over fears it could be used to analyze his DNA, Reuters reported.
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