CIA Operation Cyclone: How America Created Our Future Enemy

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Afghanistan became the ultimate Cold War chess piece and the CIA’s most ambitious covert operation in history. Under the code name Operation Cyclone, the U.S. funneled billions of dollars, weapons, and training into Afghan “freedom fighters.” But many of those fighters were radical Islamists who would later form the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

From Stinger missiles that brought down Soviet helicopters, to the arrival of a wealthy Saudi named Osama bin Laden, this is the story of how America’s Cold War victory planted the seeds of its greatest tragedy.

Was Operation Cyclone a strategic masterpiece or the biggest mistake in U.S. history? Written and hosted by Mike Droberg. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production. #OperationCyclone #CIASecrets #ForgottenHistory
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Sources:
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars (2004).
George Crile III, Charlie Wilson’s War (2003).
U.S. State Department, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Vol. XII.
War on the Rocks, “Afghanistan: Remembering the Long, Long War We Would Rather Forget” (2019).

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