"For a while, the Burmese junta looked like it might be ready to meet the West halfway. The ouster of the regime?s spy chief ended all that...In an extensive interview with The Irrawaddy, Aung Lynn Htut provided an inside look at this pivotal time in recent Burmese history, when the ruling regime seemed to be ready to turn a new page in its relations with the West. As he revealed, however, it was also a period of intensifying rivalries within the junta. Before Khin Nyunt could begin his experiment in reshaping ties with the US and other Western countries, he had to get a green light from the SPDC?s top leader, Snr-Gen Than Shwe..."