During the [[Clinton administration]], Nuland was [[chief of staff]] to Deputy Secretary of State [[Strobe Talbott]] before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.
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During the [[Clinton administration]], Nuland was [[chief of staff]] to Deputy Secretary of State [[Strobe Talbott]] before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs. Talbot, [[Bill Clinton]]'s roommate at [[Oxford University]], received the secret memoirs of deposed [[CPSU]] general secretary [[Nikita Khruschev]] from the [[KGB]] in 1969 and translated them into English for the [[CIA]].