24-07-2014, 11:10 PM
Danny Jarman Wrote:Thanks for this.
I've always suspected the Russians must have a tremendous amount of intelligence that would be embarrassing to the Americans such as their links to Al-Qaeda and such, but I've always wondered why they aren't so forthcoming with it...
I suspect it may be they are genuinely frightened of them and their unpredictability. And I wouldn't blame them.
I know some one from another country, not Russian, who was close to some of the leadership there and also lived there and went to university there when they were younger so speaks fluent Russian etc. They were in Moscow during the 1990's, Yeltsin's time, to do some research and was using the Kremlin archives for research for some work they was doing. It had been a few years since they had been there and is a very restricted and secure area naturally and they couldn't believe their eyes when they saw American's all over the archives, unsupervised, basically looting it. On asking their librarian guide they said that orders to permit this came from the top. Presumably who ever was standing in for the drunken Yeltsin. Who knows what they took, they had free rein, but they seemed to know what they were after.
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