A World of Trouble by Patrick Tyler

Author:Patrick Tyler [Tyler, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-374-29289-8
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Saudi-American coordination in covert operations blossomed under Reagan: Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Congress wrote the checks, CIA officers purchased weapons (from Egypt, China, and other states) and funneled them through Pakistan’s intelligence service to Afghan rebel commanders fighting the Soviet army. It was proving a signal success. Casey boasted in one briefing that for the price of $200 million to the American treasury, the Afghan rebels had inflicted an estimated $12 billion in costs on Moscow.6 By the mid-1980s, Saudi Arabia was a substantial partner, not only in matching dollar-for-dollar the funding the CIA was putting into the anti-Soviet war in South Asia; the Saudis were now the principal funding source for the contras fighting in Nicaragua. They were spending millions of dollars to assist Jonas Savimbi’s “freedom fighters” in Angola against a Soviet- and Cuban-backed government.

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