AP "As recently as Friday, Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer, ..."
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Wash Post "Akhmetshin said he never worked as an intelligence agent, but he did say he was drafted as a teenager and served for two years in a unit of the Soviet military that had responsibility for law enforcement issues as well as some counterintelligence matters. He immigrated to the United States in 1993 and gained citizenship in 2009.
“I was not an intelligence officer. Never,” he said."
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Seems unlikely that a teenage draftee would be a "military officer"