Putin, not a Yeltsin tool?

[Chris Burford]

At 22:53 19/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>[Tea leaves for the Weimar Russia crowd from Stratfor.  If Putin was
>"forced upon Yeltsin" then, according to Stratfor's earlier analyses, it
>was by the military and intelligence services]

Wasn't Brezhnev, or his predecessor from this camp? Or was it Gorbochov who
was specially pushed forward by the KGB? The argument being that the
intelligence services were best informed about how dire the economic and
social situation was.

Chris Burford

London