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GPI President comments to Sputnik on US government warning Gorbachev in 1991
President of the Global Policy Institute Paolo von Schirach told Sputnik News that the US government warned the last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in the summer of 1991 that a military plot was developing against him but he did not take the alert seriously. Schirach noted that the 1991 coup attempt was one of the very few occasions when the multi-billion dollar US intelligence apparatus had not been taken by surprise by a military coup attempted takeover in a major nation.
