THE WAR FOR THE KREMLIN
LETTER FROM RUSSIA about Boris Yeltsin's election in Russia. The writer met with Valdimir Kryuchkov, the last K.G.B. head, in the last days of the …
On meeting the last KGB chief at McDonald's: "I snapped up the two volumes one day at the bookstand in the State Duma—the Russian legislature—and devoured them over the next couple of nights." On the appointed morning: "I stood inside the restaurant, next to a life-size plastic Ronald McDonald."