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...Senate Intelligence Committee and a frequent host to high-level visitors from the agency. What was unusual was the cast of characters they were there to protect. When DeConcini's heavy wooden office door opened, out stepped CIA Director R. James Woolsey -- accompanied by none other than Yevgeni Primakov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, successor organization to the KGB. Picking up their guards, the chiefs of the world's two largest intelligence agencies, once mortal enemies, bustled down the corridor to another meeting...
Virtually unnoticed, Primakov spent four days in Washington in mid-June, meeting with Woolsey and the House and Senate intelligence committees. In several lengthy talks, Primakov and Woolsey discussed how their organizations can cooperate and share information on worldwide threats such as terrorism, the spread of weapons of mass destruction and drug trafficking. The Russian's visit was in return for one paid to Moscow last October by Robert Gates, Woolsey's predecessor as Director of Central Intelligence, who also dropped by the Russian embassy for a drink and a chat during Primakov's stay...
...late for that. The incredible has become the inevitable. The Baltic states are gone; Ukraine and several other republics are going, and there is probably no stopping them. What one of Gorbachev's advisers, Yevgeni Primakov, calls a "unified economic space" is a lost cause, at least during the coming phase. The U.S.S.R. is, and always has been, a unified economic disaster area, and that, not ethnicity, is the main reason so many of those 280 million people want out. The U.S.S.R. has to go much further in falling apart before the pieces will have the incentive to reconstitute themselves...
...Menashe's account was "subsequently amplified by a second Israeli, who cannot be named." This second source asserted, as Hersh puts it, that the material was "sanitized" so that any damage to the U.S. would be lessened. But, says Hersh, some of it "was directly provided to Yevgeny M. Primakov, the Soviet Foreign Ministry's specialist on the Middle East ((now chief of foreign intelligence for the Kremlin)), who met publicly and privately with Shamir...
...Where it is possible," says Primakov, he will try for glasnost and international cooperation. But spooks will still be spooks. Primakov does not plan a major purge of his espionage operatives, and they are likely to keep working secretly out of Soviet embassies around the world...