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 ?slund during this
period. President Yeltsin officially designated us as advisers during
a meeting with us on December 13, 1991, and we received offices in
the Council of Ministers during 1992 and in the Ministry of Finance
during 1993. During the period until the end of 1992, Ã…slund and I
mainly advised acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, and in 1993 we led
a unit within the Russian Finance Ministry advising Deputy Prime
Minister Boris Fedorov. (The most bizarre and entertaining fiction is
Dr. Wedel's additional suggestion that I somehow secretly worked with
the IMF during 1992.)
