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http://reason.com/blog/2004/03/22/park-pinochet-putin

KGB's elite First Directorate, charged with foreign intelligence, was composed of the cream of Soviet society: young, highly-educated, sophisticated, westernized, multi-lingual officers. The men of the First knew better than anyone, including the sclerotic Communist leadership, that the Soviet Union and Communist Party were totally rotten and nearing collapse.

In 1989—1990, I was advised that KGB had decided to abandon the party that it had been created to defend, save itself in the impending national ship wreck, and seize key sectors of government and the economy. One KGB general told me, “we need a tough dictator like South Korea's Park Chung-hi or Chile's Pinochet to make our lazy people work — at gunpoint if necessary.”