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Late last year the Justice Department reviewed how the Executive Order might apply to U.S.-supported coups. Its conclusions are secret. But former CIA counsel Bruemmer has publicly voiced an opinion that the order "does not prohibit U.S. officials from encouraging and supporting a coup, even where there is a likelihood of violence and a high probability that there will be casualties among opponents of the coup." So long as the U.S. does not approve specific plans for the killing of individuals, he says, the "prohibition against assassination has not been violated...
...wonder that wild rumors fly among Soviet citizens. What is perhaps surprising -- and the surest indicator of growing gloom -- is that the rumors have centered on a coup by the traditionally docile military, and that these rumors tend to grow with every strong denial...
...stories have surfaced in such usually well-informed journals as Moscow News and Literaturnaya Gazeta. The first flock of rumors suggested that a pro- democracy, antigovernment rally in Moscow would serve as the pretext for the coup. The rally came and went with little incident. The rumors bubbled on -- even though conspiracy theorists cannot agree on who is supposed to be plotting against whom. While most talk is of a coup mounted by military conservatives eager to institute a law-and-order regime, Vladimir Petrunya, a commentator for TASS, has charged that it is reformist radicals who want to overthrow...
Nonetheless, the mass-circulation newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda the next day achieved a bizarre fusion of conservative-radical coup rumors; it said ; military forces had been put on alert in early September to thwart a planned takeover by radicals who had organized armed assault groups. "The facts in this article were invented," Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov protested in Parliament. "No one is is preparing paratroopers for actions against the people." But even that did not kill the conspiracy talk. Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov and members of the Russian Federation government charged that Communist Party provocateurs and military hard-liners were trying...
Western diplomats think a coup is highly unlikely; the Soviet military has a long tradition of subservience to civilian authority and neither the will nor the unity to break it. But there have in fact been military movements in the Moscow area. Yazov and Kryuchkov have said that many of the troops are helping to bring in the potato harvest, and Western correspondents wandering through potato fields outside Moscow have encountered soldiers who really were digging up spuds. The defense and KGB chiefs, however, also insist that some troops are preparing for the Nov. 7 Revolution Day parade, an assertion...