1.   As spy chief, Mr Montesinos visited Guzman at the naval base on several occasions to question him.

2.   Yeltsin picked Yevgeny Primakov, a spy chief, for foreign minister.

3.   Both the former spy chief and his boss eventually fled the country.

4.   A nervous Yeltsin responded by replacing his pro-Western foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, with Yevgeny Primakov, a former spy chief.

5.   After the videotape was broadcast, the scales tipped decidedly against the spy chief.

6.   But the scene has shifted to a meeting between President Fujimori and his shady and influential spy chief, Vladimiro Ilich Montesinos.

7.   Fujimori led the armed forces hunt for the former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.

8.   Fujimori fired Montesinos in September after Peruvian television aired a videotape showing the spy chief offering an apparent bribe to an opposition congressman.

9.   Fujimori had accepted defeat, but was maneuvering to take his spy chief with him.

10.   He had known the spy chief during his stint in Moscow and told his friend what he had told NATO.