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...members are Vice President Gennadi Yanayev and Prime Minister Pavlov, both hidebound bureaucrats; Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, a professional diplomat with little political clout; Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, all hard-liners; and two token moderates, former Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin and Yevgeni Primakov, a Gorbachev adviser...
...wouldn't worry about them. The intelligence service has been split ((into foreign and domestic branches)) so that it operates as a normal agency in any civilized state. The border guards have been taken out of the structure. So have communication facilities. KGB chief Vadim Bakatin heads the counterintelligence service, but its functions are entirely different now. Perhaps there are individuals there who could cause trouble, but not the organization as such...
...dacha premises. "Call them in now," said M.S. A couple of minutes later we joined them in the dining room. I will remember all my life the scene that followed. Silayev and Rutskoi ran up to Gorbachev and embraced him. Exclamations, some words spoken loudly. People interrupting each other. Bakatin and Primakov were also there. Those were all the guys who had cussed M.S. more than once in parliament and in the press, argued, expressed indignation and protested...
Then came the flight. M.S., together with his family, occupied a small compartment in the plane and called me in. Everyone laughed with relief. We were joined by Silayev, Rutskoi, Primakov, Bakatin and Dr. Igor Borisov ((Gorbachev's personal physician)). The talk centered on people, on their behavior in extreme situations, on immorality as a source of all ills. Toasts were proposed to ongoing life. It was then that Gorbachev spoke for the first time the words "We are flying into...
...World War II? Over the years, reports have surfaced that some of the 8,177 men missing in Korea and significant numbers of the 78,000 soldiers unaccounted for in Europe wound up in the Soviet Union. POW/MIA organizations see positive signs in the appointment of Vadim Bakatin as head of the KGB. Bakatin is a reformer who, as Interior Minister, pledged to search secret files that are believed to exist on misplaced Americans...