About a month before Georgia’s Rose Revolution in 2003, an order came down from the minister of state security. It was verbal. We were to destroy everything we had on the opposition, above all on Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement.
Classified documents were torn out of the files by hand. The secret registry altered its logs and voided the registration numbers. A second verbal order followed: Stop all work on the opposition, including agent work. We waited for the protests.
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