Nice to meet you! Bond. James Bond. Look at these names now... Andropov, Bush, Putin, Kinkel, Panetta,
and now Ungureanu. All of them have one thing in common. They jumped over from professional espionage and plunged into politics. Nothing too unusual, some would say. Dangerous!, others would counter. And who would be right?
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The latest such scandal erupted in the Orthodox Church, which is the official church of the country. Almost all top clerics were found to have been agents of the secret services, or at least they had been reporting to the communist party. Which is no surprise, since you wouldn't be let to get to such a high post if you hadn't been recruited. The scandal comes strangely timely, as a younger bishop (the one presiding over my region) is preparing to take the place of the incumbent Patriarch of the Orthodox Church (who's very old), and he'll surely play the "those guys are evil and I'm not" card to get to the coveted post.
In a nutshell, whether political appointments or not, people who've spent a portion of their political career around the ranks of the intelligence services, should expect extra distrust and suspicion from the public, and I guess there's no way around that.
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