Soviet invasion of Afghanistan event
also: invasion, Soviet intervention, Soviet Afghanistan debacle, Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan, Soviet effort, Russians to come into Afghanistan, Soviets roll in, entice the Soviet Union into Afghanistan, Soviet invasion, coup and invasion
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“useful in setting up the CIA to entice the Soviet Union into Afghanistan during the Carter administration to give them their quote unquote Vietnam. And so, Carrie, go ahead. Hi, Colonel. I just wanted to kind of echo what you were saying wh…”
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The next major battlegrounds. And again, it all focuses around drugs, supposedly fighting communists, though. So we have the Soviet Afghanistan debacle in 1979, which just coincidentally coincides with the ending of the Vietnam War. And U.S…
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Before the war was over, the CIA-linked BCCI was deeply enmeshed in the drug trade. Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, has suggested that propaganda about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and claims that Islamic fundamentalis…
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that manipulates and creates psyops for us to fall for in order to support these regime change destabilization efforts. Brzezinski would later write how the Soviet invasion precipitated a large-scale buildup of the U.S. military presence in…
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because of the whole Suez Canal and the fact that they were trying to kill Nasser. This concern is quite compatible with Brzezinski's later candid admission that he intended by settling in Afghanistan in 1979, before the Soviet invasion, pr…
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Because bin Laden is basically working for the CIA. They are using this as a rallying cry to create the follow-on terror boogeyman. And the Soviet Union provided that impetus by going into Afghanistan. And then there's this collection of ji…
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contributed 3% of the capital in the Islamic Development Bank. It was through this bank's scientific and economic development efforts that huge amounts of money was funneled into Pakistan and into the hands of A.Q. Khan and his now infamous…
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on the efforts to ensure there was not massive proliferations. They are actually secretly arming people behind our backs. Okay, it would almost be safe to conclude that since we're the ones that prompted the Soviet invasion by faking and ly…
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decimated. So the Soviet Union took the bait and came into Afghanistan to rescue the supposed communist. That's the story we're told anyway. Well, that's not the story you're officially told. That's what all of this research has revealed, t…
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in, and then we massively money launder into Ukraine, and weapons show up in a whole lot of other places, which exactly mirrors our first Afghanistan. But at that point, we bait the Soviet Union's into Afghanistan, and…
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The man who overthrew Boutros was a guy by the name of General Mohammed Zia Haq. He carried on that effort, and in April 1979, when President Zia refused to halt work on the Islamic bomb, Jimmy Carter cut off all economic aid to Pakistan. J…
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bargain in order to win Zia's approval for using Pakistan as a base of operations for the Mujahideen. So it's almost as if when Carter cut them off, did they stage the Afghan false flag for the Soviet Union as a reason to turn back on the f…
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Because the Grand Chessboard and what Brzezinski did in the Middle East, essentially laying the foundation for all the wars that we've been fighting for the last 20 years, or actually 30 years if you count the Gulf War. And he laid the trap…
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They never put together the Georgia Guidestones, the Jekyll Island, and some of those things. That's interesting to me. So anyway, I thought that was very interesting. Ironically, I was born in Georgia. So Carter was a trilateral member. An…
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with Nugent hand-banked down in Australia. All of this shit's going on around Carter's presidency. And all they had to do was pick up the phone to get the CIA to do their bullshit in Afghanistan and the Soviets roll in. All they had to do w…
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Hopefully this week we can get this book finished up. So this, the last couple of chapters, this particular chapter 17 is the new wave covert actions. And it starts with talking about Jimmy Carter, recalling that the Soviet invasion of Afgh…
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same time and attempts to use covert operations. The Reagan years has left plausible deniability in tatters. The hand of the White House and the NSC became very visible to everyone. Reagan's secret wars had revealed new problems of accounta…
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Weeks before December 1979 invasion, the U.S. detected the buildup of combat forces and the introduction of Russian paratroops into the Afghan capital. As early as summer before the invasion, NSC Brzezinski warned President Carter to expect…
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This is December 1979, which is on the cusp of the election cycle in 1990, or 80, sorry. So as we go into the election cycle of 1980, the Soviet Union is baited into entering Afghanistan. I don't think that's a coincidence.…
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the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan, and then, again, the whole strategy of tension, creating chaos in order to demand certain responses from the current administration. The first Soviet airborne units deployed to Bagram Air Base outside o…
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in the second week of December. More paratroopers landed in December around the 20th, but the coup and invasion started on Christmas. President Amin was reportedly killed in a shootout with Soviet agents and other Afghans in his office. Bec…
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the vanguard of 85,000 Soviet army began crossing the border. Tactically disposed, it may be noted for a road march, not for combat. Simultaneously, the airlift toboggan assumed massive proportions. The international political terms, the So…
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Afghanistan had already been a Soviet ally for the better part of a decade. The alliance forged by a paramilitary government long before the coup, the Soviets appear to have made a move in order to avoid losing an ally. Not exactly. This se…
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Both the government put in power and the one overthrown in December 79 were of the same ilk. The invasion of Afghanistan, writes Jimmy Carter, was direct aggression by the Soviets against a freedom-loving people. That's not exactly what the…
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in 1978 and had dominated much of the mountainous regions. Russian's intervention unleashed a towering wave of international condemnation in the climate in the U.S. It approached Egypt and China about a joint operation to aid the rebels Anw…
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confirmed in 1981 that the covert action was suggested immediately after the Soviet invasion. Egypt furnished concrete assistance to the Afghan resistance. This ranged from weapons to Egyptian training. Sadat considered the Afghans a brothe…
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So he's going to be a mouthpiece for them. Apparently, the Chinese did not immediately go along on the Afghan project. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown visited Peking a few weeks after the invasion, but his talk centered on military matter…
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to fight back against the Soviets. The Afghan resistance was effectively stalemated by the Russians. Soon after the invasion, the Soviets were forced to replace the original invading units of ethnic groups with affinities to the Pustans of …
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President Carter opened the flow in January 1980, and by mid-month, rumors of the CIA operations was everywhere in Washington. A month later, the Egyptian Ministry of Defense announced its training of Afghans. The Washington Post disclosed …
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And then you have the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which also was a setup with this fake communist group that the CIA basically had created and convinced the Soviet Union was under attack inside of Afghanistan and they needed to come hel…
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$390 million in Yemen. By 1980, the pendulum had swung from restraining the rogue elephant to unleashing the CIA. International events, as well as public opinion, account for much of the impetus. Foreign developments especially affected the…
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year of intelligence. See, you can't give it to the military. At this juncture, as Washington began to reassert covert action, another international development intervened, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December of 1979. No mention …
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After April 1980, with growing criticism of the failed hostage rescue, the Klan had more of an impetus to succeed. Jimmy Carter recalls the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a shock to the world. The background is more complex and perhaps m…
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Shortly after his return, CIA military options came forward. Paramilitary. Brzezinski bragged to French reporters in a 98 interview that on the day of Carter's finding, he wrote the president a memo predicting that a paramilitary program in…
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improve rebel communications and logistics, and conduct worldwide propaganda, saying that the government was basically backed by the Soviet Union. This occurred a week before the Soviet invasion. During the long months of 79, the Soviet Pol…
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The defense minister and Politburo members who specialized in ideological matters became key advocates for military intervention. On December 12th, in a series of consultations with Politburo members and various other people, Moscow made a …
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contact at the time, the idea would have been rejected. The invasion began just after Christmas. Plans were for 52,000 troops to cross the border from the Southern Soviet Union. One target was Amin. On December 6th, the Russians set a lead …
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to neutralize Amen in a commando raid. They were successful. Amen was murdered in the presidential palace in a bloody battle. The Russians were favorably disposed toward Amen's successor, Babrak Karmal, K-A-R-M-A-L. The Soviet intervention …
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the Russian imperialist reaching the Persian Gulf. Oh, no. Russian imperialist. The Shah once told Richard Helms that if it were a question of Russia reaching the Gulf, he would take over that area first. Thus, in the United States, who fea…
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This doesn't take into account the CIA's intelligence reporting and hidden U.S. policy of conducting CIA military operations because, of course, they were already contemplating doing this themselves. Because it could be argued that it was t…
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telescoped these developments when he told undergraduate students at Emory University in 82 that a covert program had been the best way to punish the Soviets short of going to war. The Soviet intervention represented not so much the blitzkr…
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American insight in the Soviets more extended to knowledge of ethnic composition of the Russian forces. The CIA reported the presence of a number of Chajiks, Uzbeks, and other Central Asian ethnic soldiers already there. The CIA's warning e…
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Because of the performance of communications and photographic intelligence, the CIA had provided at least 10 days advance notice. Now, again, you guys, we've already went over. We not only, by this time, have massive amounts of satellites. …
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led to the invasion of Afghanistan. And a CIA field mission to the northern part of the country, led by Gary Schroen, the station chief designate for Cabal, when the embassy had closed in 1980, was one of the key secret warriors during that…