Felt said he was unhappy with the way the administration meddled with the investigation into the break-in, which led him todivulge information to the newspaper.
The three commanders, says Bhagwat, were specifically ordered not todivulge this information to Fernandes, who came to know of the impending explosions only a few hours before the rest of the world.
When asked by the then-Mayor of Moscow Gavril Popov to inform Yeltsin during a U.S. visit that a hardline coup was in the offing, the White House decided instead todivulge this information to President Gorbachev, for whom the plotters worked.