London, Sept 13 (ANI): British Prime Minister David Cameron told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that the KGB agents attempted to recruit him, but he 'failed' the test when he was a young student.
During a speech to students at the Moscow State University, Cameron joked that he apparently failed to pass the "interview" in 1985 during his visit to the Soviet Union.
"I first came to Russia as a student on my gap year between school and university in 1985. I took the Trans-Siberian railway from Nakhodka to Moscow and went on to the Black Sea coast," the Telegraph quoted Cameron, as saying.
"There, two Russians, speaking perfect English, turned up on a beach mostly used by foreigners. They took me out to lunch and dinner and asked me about life in England and what I thought about England," he said.
Cameron apparently did not immediately realise what had happened at the resort of Yalta until returning to Britain.
"When I got back I told my tutor at university and he asked me whether it was an interview. If it was, it seems I didn't get the job," Cameron added.
When Cameron told about the incident, Medvedev said that he would have made a "very good KGB agent".
"David would have been a very good KGB agent, but in this case he would never have become a Prime Minister of the UK," the paper quoted Medvedev, as saying.
Cameron said he had to disclose the incident to MI5 in 1990 when he applied for a job as a special adviser to Norman Lamont in the Treasury. (ANI)
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