Putin, not a Yeltsin tool?

[Adam Stevens]

At 07:48 AM 8/20/99 +0100, you wrote:
>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
>
Brezhnev's successor Andropov was head of the KGB, and I believe Gorby was
favored by him.