Operation Cyclone: Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Carter authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency to covertly fund the Islamist Mujahedeen (Arabic for “those who struggle”) guerillas in Afghanistan.

       [added 11/22/2022]

Subsequent Events:

11/4/1979                   12/26/1979                    12/4/1981

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 371.

Operation Cyclone – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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