Bush Aided Yeltsin in '91 Coup, New Report Says

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 15, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

At the time of the August 1991 attempted coup against then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the Bush administration gave intelligence support to Boris Yeltsin that helped the Russian president emerge as a hero from that event, according to an article today in The Atlantic Monthly.

American officials in Moscow, with access to U.S. intercepts of Soviet defense communications, were ordered by the Bush White House to tell Yeltsin that Soviet military units were not responding to calls by the coup leaders, Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, according to the ...

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