From The National Interest No. 60 http://www.nationalinterest.org http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/ni/ni_00saj01.html A letter exchange in response to Janine Wedel's “Tainted Transactions: Harvard, Russia and the Chubais Clan” (Spring 2000). Participants: Jeffrey Sachs, Anders Aslund, Marek Dabrowski, Peter Reddaway, Igor Aristov, Wayne Merry, Michael Hudson, David Ellerman, Steven Rosefielde and Janine Wedel. Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for International Development, Harvard University: Janine Wedel, for the umpteenth time, repeats her phony diatribes against me ("Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia’s Ruin", Spring 2000). Please permit me to correct the record. Despite Dr. Wedel’s weird insinuations that I had no advisory role with the Russian government, I was an official adviser to that government, but only for two years and two months, from December 1991 to January 1994. I worked closely with Anders Åslund during this period. ...