Vladimir Putin was a "snitch" who was "hated" at his Moscow spy school, a source claimed - and an official evaluation of the now-President deemed him "uncommunicative."
Yuri Shvets, who also trained at the Andropov Red Banner Institute, told author Richard Lourie that he wasn't well-regarded.
At the academy, Putin was elected division leader by Colonel Mikhail Frolov, who he had impressed by wearing a three-piece suit to his lecture on a sweltering 32-degree summer day.