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(422 posts)"When asked whether she'd ever met a dictator, Fonda pointed at the image of Vlad and said, "This guy was our travel guide.
We landed at the airport, and the person who picked us up and drove us around was Vladimir Putin. He was the travel guide. He was like our interpreter at the time."
In the early '90s, Putin had resigned from the KGB and taken a position as head of the Committee for External Relations in the Leningrad mayor's office, so it makes sense that he'd be the apparatchik tasked with squiring the celebrity couple around town.
Fonda says Putin's focus and ruthless nature was apparent even then. "His wife had gotten sick, and she was heading to the hospital. He told us that in the car and Ted said, 'You have to go to the hospital. You have to go to the hospital to check on your wife,' and he wouldn't. Vladimir Putin wouldn't do it. He stayed with us."
Cohen, stirring the pot, shot back, "He probably poisoned her, knowing him."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/jane-fonda-admits-her-secret-184617836.html
Also from the piece:
"Fonda didn't bring it up, but wouldn't an ace intelligence officer be assigned to watch over a pair of potential loose cannons? Turner was just as controversial as his wife, although for far less unpatriotic reasons. Jane never had a problem speaking what she thought was truth to power, and here they were, running loose in what had been a closed society."