Poten's Rise to Power

There were a lot of skills that puten's particular resume offered to sub jack at the time, skills like being a stealthy observer, operating in the shadows. Andrew meyer told us a story about putin that he heard from an american diplomat back when meyer was moscow correspondent for magazine in the 19 nineties. He was always the guy at the reception in the corner, often silent, not drinking, famous for not drinking and taking note, observing. And he said we called him the ghost because he was always present, but never really visible.