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Putin’s generals are hiding information from the Russian leader
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“There is a slight issue that there may be a restricted flow of information to Putin.”
As Putin has grown older and “more autocratic”, the intelligence reaching the Russian leader has thinned out, says former Defence Committee clerk and secretary to the UK delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Eliot Wilson.
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