Soviet-Afghan War event
also: Afghan war effort, Afghanistan crazy mess, war, Afghan war, Soviet intervention, occupation, Afghan-Russian war, give to the Mujahideen
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Ramzi Yousef trained
Soviet-Afghan War documented
“using the terror to gain greater control by the government. He goes on to say that different terrorist groups was at the time of the incident undergoing trial at New York City. Yusuf was trained during the Afghan war and was captured and ex…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 16 @ 1:04:50
Kamal Adham funded
Soviet-Afghan War book_quoted
“was aware of the cutbacks at the CIA. The investigations in the U.S. Congress that had began in 1974 had basically shut down the Directorate of Operations. During this period, the amounts of money devoted to the enterprise began in the tens…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 25:32
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This would lead the Soviet Union to not send their Olympic team to Los Angeles, which is basically what the U.S. did when the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan. So they just basically returned the favor.…
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So you basically have a vessel state of a combination primarily of the UK, but of the US as well. And then you look at the intricate role that it played with the ISI and us giving them the most money the CIA has ever given to anybody to cre…
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was aware of the cutbacks at the CIA. The investigations in the U.S. Congress that had began in 1974 had basically shut down the Directorate of Operations. During this period, the amounts of money devoted to the enterprise began in the tens…
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basically come out against the Zionists in Israel. So the entire Middle East became a balancing act. Adem fighting the fundamentalists through the Iraqi surrogates in the Iran-Iraq war and tying up Moscow in Afghanistan by assisting the Muj…
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80s with the Mujahideen and the northern warlords and all that other crap when Russia was there. What the CIA did was they went to Congress and they said, hey, we need $100 million. And I mean, it ended up being tons more. I'm just pulling …
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to give to the Mujahideen and we're going to give it through the ISI, which is the Pakistani intelligence counterpart to the CIA. So we're going to give them $100 million. Then they're going to funnel it into Afghanistan to buy weapons. Wel…
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That was just made up out of whole air. They have no idea whether that was true or not. Analysts in the Directorate for Intelligence told that the project could not achieve more than a disruptive effect. But Bob Gates, its chief from 82 to …
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to be cleared with General Zia of Pakistan, the Saudis, and others. Chuck Cogan recalls an adrenaline rush when William Casey took over from Stan Turner. But to some degree, escalation had to be incremental simply because the foundations ne…
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a Soviet Vietnam, but they did. That might have been the idea at the White House, and it was. When Howard Hart replaced John Reagan as station chief in Islamabad, Casey's instructions were simply to go out and kill Russians. Hart had won th…
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And that it dominated the Afghan-Soviet border, inflicting heavy losses on Russians. The reporting cable must have pleased the people at CIA. There was no proof that that was true because, again, the CIA is running this from Pakistan. In sp…
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In 1984, no part of Afghanistan was safe from the Mujahideen. Even Kabul, where KHAD headquarters was subjected to rocket attacks, the defense ministry had been bombed. The DRA officers kidnapped right off the street. The constant menace of…
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get it messages, both of which Yusuf figured CIA ought to have known. The ISI leader loved the CIA satellite photos and its radio intercepts, but thought the secret warriors spent too much time spinning their wheels. Bert Dunn, the incoming…
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and as a special forces officer with the army, had served in both Pakistan and Afghanistan as far back as the 60s. Monitoring U.S. aid to the Pakistanis with whom he had contacts, but not even done, could calm the waters, undoubtedly becaus…
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The fact that the U.S. had an embassy in Kabul the entire time tells you a whole bunch of stuff. William Casey was constantly on the run. His annual visits to the cockpit of the Afghan war typically lasted two days. Much like the Washington…
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General Zia again emphasized giving the rebels Stinger missiles. Finally, the log jam was broken. At a breakfast in early December, McMahon told Fred Eichel that the CIA would ship as many of the missiles as the Pentagon could provide. When…
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Major policy fights were simultaneously occurring in the Soviet Union. In March of 85, the Soviet leadership changed. Mikhail Gorbachev came into office. Gorbachev thought the Afghan intervention a mistake and had already hinted he wanted o…
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The Russians determined to change their Afghan strategy. The new concept, somewhat akin to the U.S., had done in the last phase of the Vietnam War, amounted to Afghanization. Gorbachev gave his generals two years maximum, preferably one, fo…
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the 1980s Afghanistan crazy mess where of course it was about opium we all know that we basically baited in the Russians into Afghanistan to give them their Vietnam and instead of the hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer dollars…
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We thought it was a lot smarter to give hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to a foreign intelligence agency called the ISI in Pakistan and let them decide who gets the money, supposedly in Afghanistan. So what happens almost …
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that this money is used to buy American weapons to provide to the Mujahideen that supposedly were supporting. They allow the ISI to go to Bulgaria and former Soviet or current Soviet weapons suppliers because Bulgaria was providing weapons …
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to then provide to the Afghanistans. So you had the Soviet Union with more modern weapons fighting against weapons they'd used 20 years ago, their own weapons in the hands of the Afghanistan. So Vietnam it was, and obviously went on for yea…
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bit of that money was siphoned off by the ISI to fund their nuclear program as well. So yeah, we bought that too. And oh, by the way, then they later on sell it to Iran. Yeah, so in a way, everything circles back around to us. We fund all o…
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During the Afghan-Russian war, the CIA, in support of the Mujahideen guerrillas, smuggled hundreds, hundreds of Stinger missiles into Afghanistan to counter the Russian MiG and helicopter gunships. The missiles were so effective that they w…
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using the terror to gain greater control by the government. He goes on to say that different terrorist groups was at the time of the incident undergoing trial at New York City. Yusuf was trained during the Afghan war and was captured and ex…