I hate to say it but maybe he was a stooge all those years ago. Some comrades are more equal than others and who's faction was he married too, over their opposition. Sad day when I think one of the principals that helped bring down the Soviet Union was not what we thought.
I still want to know when Gerald Ford said Poland was free in the debates with Carter, was that a Intel Slip and what Intel did he have, i.e did they know then in 76' that the Soviets and their Satellite States were about to collapse....