The US Central Intelligence Agency or CIA had no clues at all when a coup took place in the Kremlin in 1991 and it was the CNN which brought the full drama of the successful attempt to seize power to the viewers.

• 1991年克里姆林宫发生巨变时，美国中央情报局事前都毫无警讯，可是CNN却在第一时间把事件呈现在大众面前。