When did McFaul & Sechin first meet?
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According to Michael McFaul himself,
In my work with NDI, most events weren't nearly as exciting as Democratic Russia's mass demonstration in March 1991. In May of that year NDI organized a new round of "technical training seminars"—a title we used to sound apolitical—on Democratic Government and Municipal Finance. How boring does that sound? [...] [Putin] handed me off to his trusted deputy, Igor Sechin, who ran the logistics to perfection—much more efficiently than his counterparts in the Moscow city government. [...] At the concluding dinner that night, Russians and Americans together toasted our cooperation and success. In the midst of our celebration, Sechin, Putin's deputy, made a jarring confession. As we congratulated each other on a successful conference, he revealed to me that he too had worked in intelligence, just like his boss. He spoke Portuguese, just like I did, and had worked in southern Africa, just like I had. Although I am sure that I had met dozens of Soviet intelligence officers by then, none of them had admitted it. I wondered if he was telling me this information, especially about our shared experiences in Lusophone Africa, to suggest that he believed that I also was an intelligence officer, a CIA agent. Or was he just trying to be friendly? I finally concluded that it didn't really matter, since we were all on the same side now.
Source: Michael McFaul, From Cold War to Hot Peace, May 2018.
Bold is mine. In case you are wondering, NDI stands for National Democratic Institute.
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