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To: Stoctrash who wrote (24942)3/28/2000 7:22:00 AM
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Foreign Policy Alert No. 42, June 9, 1999
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.

Administration Fought Intelligence Reporting on Russian Corruption
The failure of U.S. policy toward Russia rests in large part on a refusal by policy makers to accept intelligence that clashed with their visions, illusions, political and financial interests, and crony relationships. Fritz W. Ermarth, who retired from the CIA in October 1998 after a career that included chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council and two tours on the National Security Council staff, addresses the problem in the Spring 1999 issue of The National Interest. Excerpts of his article follow.

Deputy Secretary of Strobe Talbott, the architect of U.S. policy toward Russia, rejected the idea of a criminalized Russian state as an offensive Hollywood stereotype. "This raises a touchy question: long a visible, ubiquitous and powerful threat to reform, should the extent of Russian crime and corruption not have warned American policymakers that the Russian reforms were not on track?" (cont)
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