Spy vs. Spy

Via Drezner, here's a really, really cool article about the role the Ukranian spy agencies played in the Orange Revolution. The reporter appears to have unprecedented acess to most of the major players, and the resulting story reads like a Tom Clancy novel:

The group contemplated a public resignation, but decided to try steering the gathering forces from a clash, and to fight from within. "Today we can save our faces or our epaulettes, or we can try to save our country," General Romanchenko and General. Sarnatskyi said they remembered the spy chief saying.
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"I had always thought that all of our generals were very loyal to Kuchma and were pragmatic," she said. "All of a sudden I made this discovery. We had generals on the side of the people."

Highly recommended.