The article with Le Nouvel Observateur is said to be confirmed by material from the Carter-Brezhnev Project's archives, and:
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In his memoir published in 1996, the former CIA director Robert Gates made it clear that the American intelligence services began to aid the mujahedin guerrillas not after the Soviet invasion, but six months before it. http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=3927
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At that time, there was already a Soviet-supported communist government in Afghanistan.
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"The anti-Communist revolt that began at Herat in western Afghanistan in March 1979 originated in a government initiative to teach girls to read. The fundamentalist Afghans opposed to this were supported by a triumvirate of nations – the U.S., Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia"
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