The Covert Operation to Aid the Mujahaddine Freedom Fighters Did Not Begin After the Soviet Invasion

Former c i a director robert gates revealed in his 19 96 autobiography that assistance to the afghan mujehaddine did not start after the soviet invasion. Six months before, in july 19 79, with president jimmy carter, signing off on a covert operation to assist and fund the resistance forces In Afghanistan. This was done in the full knowledge that these forces might antagonize and draw the soviets into the country. A certain faction of the carter white house, known as the bleeders for their propensity to bleed the sovie union through an engaged guerilla conflict like the us had experienced in viet nam, wanted to achieve this