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Road to Moscow: Bill Clinton’s Early Activism from Fulbright to Moscow Original FReeper research | 08/22/2007 | Fedora Posted on 8/22/2007 Road to Moscow Bill Clinton’s Early Activism from Fulbright to MoscowClinton then continued by train through Leningrad to Moscow. In Moscow, where he arrived on New Year’s Eve, he had booked through the Soviet travel agency In tourist to spend a week at the expensive Hotel National. His autobiography says the only person he knew in Moscow was Tom Williamson’s girlfriend Anik “Nikki” Alexis, a daughter of a French diplomat who was now studying at the Patrice Lumumb a Peoples' Friendship University, a KGB training ground famed for turning out alumni such as the terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Clinton recalls, “One night I took a bus out to Lumumba University tohave dinner with Nikki and some of her friends. One of them was a Haitian woman named Helene whose husband was studying in Paris.” On the bus back home Clinton says there was only one other passenger, Oleg Rakito, who “spoke better English than I did” and “asked me lots of questions and told me he worked for the government,virtually admitting he was assigned to keep an eye on me”. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884984/posts