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...Olga ((Lanina, one of Gorbachev's secretaries)) and I came back to work after lunch at Yuzhny at about 4 p.m. As usual, two police cars stood at the entrance, and a barbed-wire strip was stretched across the road. They moved it aside a little for us to pass...
...about 5 o'clock, Olga ran in: "Anatoli Sergeyevich! What's happening? ((Gorbachev's chief of staff Valeri)) Boldin, ((deputy chairman of the Defense Council Oleg)) Baklanov and ((Politburo member Oleg)) Shenin have come with a tall general in eyeglasses. I've never seen him." I saw a convoy of cars with aerials, some of them with lights flashing on the roofs, at the entrance of the office building, a swarm of drivers and guards. I peeped out the window that looked onto the presidential quarters: gloomy ((General Yuri)) Plekhanov ((head of the KGB department responsible for the security...
...Olga told me that they had cut off communications. I picked up a receiver, another one and still another -- all dead, including the satellite line...
That morning Olga said, "Anatoli Sergeyevich, why are you sitting in your study all the time? Let's go swimming. The bodyguards can't walk out to the water, but they won't stop you. We won't be allowed to go without you." So Olga, Larissa (a nurse) and Tatyana (a masseuse, a big and good-natured woman) came to us and we set off to the beach...
...reached the steep path and started climbing down on decrepit steps. About halfway, Olga called, "Look back!" I turned my head and saw a man following us. Finally we came to the water. It was a small beach nestled between large rocks. There is a watchtower on the right. Two soldiers directed their binoculars at us. People in a motorboat and a speedboat ahead kick-started their engines. A frigate was mooring 100 yards away. Why a guard nearby? Is he supposed to seize me if I try to escape to Turkey? No way. I am too good a swimmer...